Margaretha Cohen was the eldest child of the couple Hartog Cohen from Leeuwarden and Marianne Sitters from Gorinchem. She was born 18 February 1901 in Leiden and married there on 5 June 1923 the 30-year old commercial traveller who was born in Leeuwarden, Levie Velleman, a son of Willem Velleman and Grietje de Jong.
Levie Velleman arrived in Rotterdam on 30 April 1923 from Leeuwarden, where he was…