Emanuel Speijer the second son in the family of Bernard Speijer and Marianna à Catan and was born on 3 December 1921 in Amsterdam. He worked as a barber, later as an errand boy (by bike) and at the time of the mandatory registration of all the Jews in the Netherlands, he was a butcher’s hand. Maurice was born on 28 November 1923; he worked as a bicycle boy. Since 1933 they lived with their parents…