Elsa Prins was the eldest of the two daughters of Lewis Prins and Ernestine Loewenthal. She was born 30 January 1909 in Amsterdam, where in 1914 her sister Greta was born too. Till she was 10 years old, she and her sister lived with her parents at Den Texstraat 19 in Amsterdam.
The marriage of her parents however was going to end in a divorce, which was pronounced in April 1921. Her parents separa…