Rachel Sanders-Polak was a daughter of Eliazer David Polak and Annaatje Plotske. She was born in Amsterdam on 2 November 1871 in a family of four children, namely: Elisabeth, Marianne, Mozes and Rachel herself.
Rachel married Annaatje van der Molen's widower, Joseph Sanders, on 5 March 1903, who was born on 28 January 1844, but died on 27 May 1908. Five years before his death, Joseph Sanders remar…