Barend / Baruch Roelof / Raphael Citroën

The Citroen family were Ashkenazim from Eastern Europe. Jacob Moses Limoenman, the earliest recorded Citroen ancestor, was an itinerant fruit seller.

His son, Barend Roelof Limoenman began as a working goldsmith, but became a retail jeweler, changing his name from Limoenman to the more genteel Citroën.
Another son became a jeweler----we André Citroën, who started up the great car company was his son.

• Citroen Org

The eldest of Barend Roelof 's fourteen children followed him into the wholesale jewellery business and a shop in Amsterdam still bears his name.

Photo: Year 4, 69/70 AD Shekel Etrog; paleo-Hebrew around (to the redemption of Zion). Two lulavs, surrounded by paleo-Hebrew (year four, half). Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.

[http://www.denisecitroen.nl/afb/media/Citroen.pdf]

Barend mocht alleen van Netje's vader met haar trouwen als hij de naam Limoenman veranderde in Citroen. En zo geschiedde.