Gerda Renée Pinto (nickname Gerdi) was born on 7 December 1923 in Offenbach am Main in Germany. She had an elder brother: Eugen. Her father, Bernard Pinto, was born on 15 March 1886 in Groningen. In Germany, he ran a braces factory. After the Kristallnacht, the family moved to the Utrechtseweg 60 in…