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Mozes van Leeuwen

Den Haag, – Gross-Rosen,

Reached the age of 40 years

Occupation: Undertaker

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The fate of the Mozes van Leeuwen family.

Mozes van Leeuwen was a son of Alexander van Leeuwen and Veronica Pos. He was born on 12 June 1904 in Den Haag and he was known as a dealer in woolen goods. He married on 24 August 1927 in Den Haag Maria de Jong, born in Haarlem on 17 December 1902 as a daughter of David de Jong and Sara Cohen. The couple had one daughter on 18 July 1928 named Veronica.

After Mozes van Leeuwen has left his parenta…

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Mozes van Leeuwen and his family

Mozes van Leeuwen appears on a handwritten list of all persons who held offices in the Dutch-Jewish community of Haarlem during the early years of the war. Photographs remain of each official. Mozes van Leeuwen cleaned the community centre of the Dutch-Jewish Community in Haarlem and was a porter at the religious institution Gemieloeth Chassadiem.

Mozes van Leeuwen was married. He and his wife l…

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The Cosel period.

The period from 28 August to 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called Cosel period. Deportation trains  made a stopover at the freight station of Cosel, located 80 km west of Auschwitz. During that stop, boys and men who were considered fit for work by the Germans, were usually forcibly separated from their families and taken off the train and put to work in the surrounding labor camps of Upper

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The Mozes van Leeuwen Family

In addition, a Jokos file (number 36716) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 7198/9665).

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