Maijer/Meijer Kraun was a son of Salomon Kraun and Grita Libowitz, both from St. Petersburg and was born in October 1871 in Barzielow in Russia. He was a tailor by profession and married in Amsterdam on 27 February 1901 to Sara Mest, born 1 Autust 1879 in Ostronlengka in Poland, a daughter of the mason Jacob Mest and Mina Tröbel. Maijer Kraun and Sara Mest were “officially subscribed” in the Peoples Registry in Amsterdam on 12 November 1896 and they lived among others in the so-called “Russian street”, the Manegestraat nr. 8 and nr. 12.
Meijer and Sara had four children: on 28 February 1902 was their son Jacob born in Amsterdam, however he died already there on 11 December 1902. On 19 May 1903 Meijer Kraun and his wife left Amsterdam for Rotterdam, where they lived in the Diergaardenstraat 14 and in the Van der Sluijsstraat 49b and nr. 85. There, their other three children were born. Rosa was the only daughter in the family and was born 2 October 1903. Her brother Mozes followed on 15 August 1907 and her brother Simon on 20 November 1910.
Meijer Kraun passed away on 6 May 1925 in Amsterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. His wife Sara Mest passed already on 12 September 1920 in Rotterdam.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, closed and finished family registration cards (Overgenomen Delen); the wedding certificate dated 27 February 1901 for Meijer Kraun/Sara Mest; website Joodsamsterdam.nl/Manegestraat; City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Meijer Kraun; certificate of death for Meijer Kraun, Amsterdam nr. 2532 dated 6 May 1925; certificate of death for Sara Mest, Rotterdam nr. 4357 dated 12 September 1920.