Abraham Swaap was born on 10 March 1923 in Amsterdam as a son of Meijer Swaap and Branca Jacobs. He married Celina Delden in Amsterdam on 5 August 1942, a daughter of Aron Delden and Marianne Waas, who was born on 24 August 1921.
Abraham survived the Holocaust; he was “gesperrt” – exempted from deportation by the Jewish Council and became the 1st clerk in the grocery shop of Eliazer and Sophia Tal…