Meijer Soep was a son of Jacob Soep and Betje Leendert Schellevisch. He was born in Amsterdam on 6 February 1884 as the youngest in a family of seven children and was a cigar maker by trade. On 23 June 1909 he married Anna Vogel, who was born on 13 August 1885 as a daughter of Isaäc Vogel and Trijntje Lubig. Anna was the third in a family of ten children.
After the marriage of Meijer and Anna was …