Simon Bierman was a son of Levie Bierman and Saa Italiaander and was born in Amsterdam on 4 November 1903. His mother Sara was a sister of Rebecca Italiaander, who was married to Levie Velleman. Simon’s mother Sara had with his father Levie Bierman 10 children, but at the birth of the 10th child, his mother died in childbirth the next day on 9 July 1910. His father Levie Bierman remarried then in …