Gé — her real name was Gesine — was born seven and half years after Puck, on December 16, 1920. She went to the same girls' school in Rotterdam as her sister, where she was a good pupil. Friends from the time recall how she was sometimes collected in the car by her mother, the only mother in Rotterdam to have her own car. After leaving school, Gé studied law in Leiden, gaining her master's degree in the middle of the war, in 1943. She married a businessman, Leendert Kooy, and the couple had a son, Leonard, in 1948. He was only a year old when his father died. Gé began working full-time and little Leo was brought up for much of the time by his grandparents in Huis Sonneveld. He still feels a particular attachment to this house. You may have heard more about him earlier on in this tour. When Leo was eight, his mother remarried, this time to a Rotterdam general practitioner, Huib Rietdijk. She had two more sons, Koos and Bertus. The family moved to Switzerland in 1966, and Gé died there in March 1990.

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