Willem Sons and Liesje (Elisabeth) Menist married in 1928 and moved to Sarphatistraat 195-II in 1933. Willem grew up with seven siblings; his mother Rachel died in 1925 and his father Emanuel in 1939, sparing him from the Nazi persecution that later destroyed the entire Sons family—none of the siblings survived the war, though some grandchildren did. Liesje came from a family of six children. Her sister died in 1929; her mother Klara died at home in 1942, while her father Meijer, a diamond cutter, and almost all her remaining siblings were murdered in the Holocaust. Willem worked as a flour trade agent and advised the Jewish Council on bread supply, which granted his family a Sperre, temporarily protecting them from arrest, but most Sperren were canceled in 1943. In May 1943 the family was forced into a Nazi relocation to Krugerplein, a tactic of intimidation, replacing a deported Jewish family sent to Sobibor. During the mass raid of 20 June 1943 in Amsterdam South and East, Willem, Liesje, and their children were arrested, sent to Westerbork, and deported by freight train on 29 June with nearly 2,400 people, including 482 children. The train arrived in Sobibor on 2 July 1943, and the Sons family was murdered the same day.
