Betje Barnstein was a daughter of Meijer Barnstein and Grietje Kooker, a family with eleven children, among them she herself, Hartog, Engeltje, Esther, Eva, Mina, and Maurits. Jetta, who was married to Hartog Zwalf, has survived the Holocaust as the only one of the children. Three children has already died at a very your age.
Betje married 6 November 1913 in Zaandam to Samuel Witteboon, son of Si…