Maurice Ferares
Ferares was born in Amsterdam in 1922 and grew up in the neighbourhood Transvaalbuurt. He was a member of the Jewish working-class family. He studied violin at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam until but he was refused as being Jew in early 1942 during World War II. He became a resistance member during World War II and survived the holocaust. He became a politician. Over the years, Ferares was a member of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN),  (RCP), Labour Party (PvdA) and Socialist Party (SP). He remained socially engaged in East Amsterdam. Ferares also wrote several non-fiction books.