Joseph van West was the youngest of the nine children of Manuel van West and Klara Wurms. He was born on 18 January 1885 and he became a tailor by profession. Five of the nine children passed already before the war; the other four were killed in the Shoah.
Joseph van West married on 8 November 1906 in Amsterdam Gracia van Aron Rodrigues Pereira, the youngest of the three daughters of Aron van Davi…