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.