Abraham Stokvisch, who was born on 28 August 1868 in Amsterdam, was a son of Jacob Nathan Stokvisch and Mietje Jacob Italiaander. Abraham was the eldest; he had a sister Sara in 1872 and a sister Mietje in 1875.
Abraham earned his living as a casual laborer, as a disc sander and as a diamond cutter. On 8 May 1889 he married Sara Waas, a daughter of Simon Waas and Roosje Groen, in Amsterdam. Sara w…