Roeween Treep (* 1943) was born in the Dutch collection and deportation camp Westerbork from which more than 100,000 Jews were transported to the Eastern European extermination camps. When his mother learned that her deportation to Auschwitz was imminent, she managed to escape from the heavily secured camp with her six-month-old son and went into hiding with her baby in Amsterdam. They managed to remain until liberation, but after the war, however, Roeween’s mother was deemed unable to care for him and he was taken from her. The system bounced him from foster families to orphanages until the age of 14 when he became independent and got work in the field of graphics.
At the age of 21 Roween moved to England where he married and had 3 children. In the early 1970s the family moved to Israel where he Roween worked for an international computer company. In 1988 Treep returned to live in the Netherlands.