Michael Machin was born on 26 July 1890 in Amsterdam as the son of Hirch Machin (21 May 1859) from Minsk in Russia and Susanna Löwenstein (27 February 1863) from Enschede.
Michael was the third of six children in the Hirch Machin family; his sisters and brothers were Betsij (1886), Salomon (1887), Mozes (1892), Marianne (1894) and Isidoor Jacob (1897). The youngest left for America in 1921. Until …