Alexander Bartels was a son of Simon Bartels and Annaatje Leeuwin. He married Margaretha van der Glas in Zaandam on 24 January 1912, a daughter of Jochem van der Glas and Elsje Bonnewit. The couple had three children, of whom their daughter Elsje has died already a few days after she was born in April 1918. The two other daughters, Anna and Elsa, have been killed during the Shoah in Sobibor.
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