Jacob was born on 6 May 1902 in East London to Polish parents Lazarus and Eva nee Barnett and he was the second youngest of twelve children. The first five children were born in Poland before the family travelled to England settling in Whitechapel. In 1907, when Jacob was five, his father died and the 1911 census shows the family living with their widowed mother at Newbold Street in East London and three years later in 1914, their mother also died.

In 1921, nine of the siblings lived together and were working in various trades including shoemaking, tailoring, the fur trade and as a butcher. Jacob was listed as a ladies’ tailor.

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