Leendert Barmhartigheid was a son of Karel Barmhartigheid and Rachel Franschman. He was born in Amsterdam on 16 August 1900 and started his working life as a peddler. At the age of 20, he married on 29 September 1920 in Amsterdam the 32-year old and still unmarried Esther Vogel, a daughter of Isaäc Vogel and Trijntje Lubig, who was born on 23 March 1888.
After the marriage was concluded in Septem…