Rachel Katwijk was a daughter of Jacob Katwijk and Sara Gosler. She was the 5th of the nine children in the Katwijk family and was born in Amsterdam on 2 January 1896. On 13 November 1919 she married there the diamond polisher Abraham Pront, a son of Zacharias Pront and Selly Lakmaker. He was born in Amsterdam too on 2 March 1896.
Before Rachel married Abraham Pront, she lived at home with her par…