David is een zoon van Moses Gans en Hanna Ritmeester. Hij trouwde 31 juli 1901 met Esther Lisser (21 jaar), dochter van Markus Salomon Lisser en Kaatje Nathan Sluijs.
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Moses, 8 november 1901 A'dam
Marcus, 4 december 1902 A'dam
Juda, 7 juli 1904 A'dam
Aron, 9 november 1905 A'dam
Hijman, 3 f…
David Gans and Esther Lisser had eleven children. Four of them survived the war. The other seven and their partners died, as did twenty-four grandchildren. One of their descendants wrote this poem in their memory:
Memorial
Sixty years after we were saved, you do not even have a grave.
And after…