Maurits Elekan, a son of Jonas Elekan and Leentje Polak, was born in Amsterdam on 3 February1872. Up from 1898 he was employed in the diamond industry but his membership card of the ANDB, the Diamond Union, revealed that he was a few times unsubscribed and subscribed again and that he was working in Branch 2 as a brilliant polisher helper. In 1922 he had been definitively unsubscribed as a member …