Hijman Content was a son of the diamond broker Abraham Content and Naatje Gompers en was born 4 March 1892. His father passed away in 1906 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg. He had one brother, Louis, who after his marriage to Rebecca Schuitevoerder in 1918, left Amsterdam for Deurne (Antwerp) in 1925 with his wife and two children.
Hijman travelled regularly to London on behal…