Marcus Worms, also known as Max, was the son of Mozes Worms and Elisabeth Katan. He came from a poor working-class family. Max had a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Amsterdam. Later he received a PhD in maths and physics. He was also a fine draughtsman, a good chess-player and an avid stamp collector. Marcus Worms got married to a non-Jewish woman. The couple had four children, the youngest of whom he never knew.
After working for a while as a bookkeeper in Rotterdam, Max opened a shop selling electrical goods in Arnhem. There he was picked up in 1942, not so much because he was Jewish as because he had unwittingly bought up a batch of stolen electrical cables. From the prison in Arnhem and from Westerbork Max wrote twelve letters to his wife, which are now [www.maxtack.nl/worms online</a> .
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