Arnold van Emden was married to Truida Hakker. He and his wife had three children: Hijman, Louis Lena and one child who survived the war. Arnold van Emden and his wife both came from a family of butchers. Soon after marrying in Capelle in 1905, they moved to Rotterdam, which was then growing rapidly, and found work as a meat carver and poulteress. Arnold van Emden was very inventive and good with …