Emanuel Moscaou was one of the eight children of David Moscou and Marianne van de Kar. His father, born in 1857, had died in Amsterdam in 1923 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. At the age of 88 years, his mother was brought to Westerbork on 25 May 1943 and that same day put on transport to Sobibor, where on arrival on 28 May 1943 she was immediately killed.
Emanuel Moscou was a diamondworker and also a market vendor. He dealt in irregular goods. From 1931 he received a vendor permit and had a stand at the Albert Cuyp street market, where he sold irregular pieced and dry goods.
On 9 April 1913 he married the 21-year old non-Jewish Geertje Hoffmans, a daughter of Huibertes Johannes Jacobus Hoffmanss and Hendrika Waterman and on 29 August 1916 their son Emanuel was born., However, the marriage did not last and ended in a divorce on 31 October 1940. Their son Emanuel survived the Holocaust and married after the war Schoontje van Beseme.
On 18 December 1941 Emanuel Moscou remarried the 53-year old Elsje Beugeltas. She was a daughter of Joseph Beugeltas and Femmetje Borstel and was in 1913 previously married to Simon Naarden, from whom she has been divorced in 1939. Elsje Beugeltas had a son Joseph Naarden, who was born in 1915 and who married in 1941 Margaretha van den Elshout. They survived the Holocaust.
On 20 April 1943, when Emanuel Moscou and his wife Elsje Beugeltas lived at St. Antoniebreestraat 58 in Amsterdam, they were carried off from there to Westerbork where they had to stay in barrack 58. Immediately attempts were made to escape deportation as Emanuel had been previously mixed married and had a son from that wedlock. The answer from the Expositur of 24 April showed that the mixed marriage had apparently already been dissolved earlier, making the request impossible so further steps had no purpose.
On 27 April Emanuel and Elsje were put on transport to Sobib or and on arrival there on 30 April 1943 both were immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of David Moscou; archive cards of Marianne van de Kar, Emanuel Moscou (fatgher), Emanuel Moscou (son), Elsje Beugeltas and Joseph Naarden; websites wiewaswie.nl and hetstenenarchief.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Emanuel Moscou en Elsje Beugeltas.