Emanuel Abram, born on 29 August 1918 in Amsterdam, was a son of Moses Abram and Rebecca de Paauw. Emanuel was a diamond worker but was also employed as a warehouse clerk. On 15 July 1942 he married Vrouwtje van Geldere in Amsterdam, who was born there on 19 April 1921. She was a daughter of Hartog van Geldere and Fijtje Parsser. The Abram-van Geldere couple had a son Robert on 21 March 1943; he s…