Philip van de Kar was a son of David van de Kar and Heintje Schraal, who both have died already before the war. Philip married 3 December 1919 in Amsterdam to Rika Rodrigues Garcia, a daughter of Elias Rodrigues Garcia and Rachel Leeda.
Philip was born in a family with eleven children, of whom two have died before the war. However his siblings Marianne, Salomon, Clara, Gompert, Coenraad, Grietje, …