Rebecca Michel was the third youngest of the children of Friedrich Michel and Lena Reiwit. She was born at Koestraat 13 in Amsterdam on 12 February 1898 and she worked later as a housekeeper. Until August 1936 she lived "at home" with her parents and sibs which also meant that she had moved several times since then, before the family ended up in Lange Houtstraat no. 26 in 1927.
When her father Fri…