Lion Vos was a son of Wolf Vos and Henriette van Leeuwen. He was born in Amsterdam on 16 December 1908 but left on 18 January 1909 with his mother and elder brother Hijman to Antwerp, where his father lived and worked as a diamond worker.
In the beginning, the family lived at Provinciestraat 188 in Antwerp but moved to Deurne and Borgerhout, where they had residence per 1 April 1914 at Rolwagenstr…