Esther Katwijk was a daughter of Jacob Katwijk and Sara Gobes. She was born in Amsterdam on 28 January 1897 and remained unmarried. She worked as a seamstress in a fashion store, as a buttonhole maker and labourer with a button agent.
Esther was born into a family with already five children then, namely Betje, Bloeme, Mietje, Abraham and Rachel. After her birth, still Louis, Joseph and Alexander w…