Louis van Tijn was the third of the four children of Izaak van Tijn and Saartje van Meer. He was born in Den Haag on 25 August 1905 but moved already two months later with his family, on 14 October 1905 to Magdalenastraat 1 in Utrecht, where his father became a doorkeeper at the Israëlitic Orphanage.
Until 14 November 1927, Louis van Tijn lived at Utrecht, but left then for Leeuwarden, where he go…