Bernard Barend was the youngest of the twelve children of Gerrit Barend and Heintje Visser. He was born in Amsterdam on 6 January 1916, remained unmarried and worked as a warehouse clerk but later he became a designer of ladies fashion hats. Bernard lived at home with his father; his mother passed away already in 1934. His father afterwards moved in 1935 to the Louis Bothastraat and in December to…