Lea Barmes was the first born child of Abraham Joseph Barmes and Jansje Levie Mossel. She was born in Amsterdam on 27 March 1866 and had another seven siblings, namely Sophia, Louis, Joseph, Margaretha, Elisabeth, Hermina and Jacob. Her little brothers Louis and Jacob died already as babies. Sophia died in 1930 but Elisabeth and Hermina survived the Holocaust. Her sister Margaretha passed in Den H…