The fate of Mozes Rodrigues and from his wife Clara Simons and their littel son Joseph.

Mozes Rodrigues was a son of the casual worker Joseph Rodrigues and Annaatje Beth. He was born on 27 March 1915 in Amsterdam and had an older sister Judith, who was born there on 19 September 1910. For several years in the 1930s, his father Joseph was a street-market vendor of potatoes, vegetables and fruit in Amsterdam-East. At that time, they lived at Niasstraat 36.

When Mozes Rodrigues was not yet married, he worked as a waiter and presser. He married the non-Jewish Hendrika Jetten on 24 February 1936, but divorced her on 28 March 1940. On 29 October 1941, he remarried in Amsterdam with Clara Simons, the fourth of the 11 children of Eliazer Simons and Heintje de Metz. She was born in Amsterdam on 16 June 1920 and was a dressmaker by profession.

Clara lived with her parents at home on the Oude Zijds Voorburgwal 183 1^st floor in Amsterdam, but the Simons family moved one last time on 9 May 1941 to the Staalkade 6 upper house. After the marriage of Clara and Mozes was concluded, he moved in with the Simons family at Staalkade 6, where their son Joseph Rodrigues was born on 5 August 1941.

However, Mozes Rodrigues was arrested in Amsterdam during the raids of February 1941. He was sent to Mauthausen via camp Schoorl, where he got killed on 16 January 1942.

Clara and her son Joseph Rodrigues were carried off to Westerbork on 28 November 1942, from where they were both deported to Auschwitz on 12 December on the last transport that year because of the “Christmas recess of the German militairy”, and were immediately murdered in the gas chamber of Auschwitz-Birkenau upon arrival there on 15 December 1942.

Sources include the Amsterdam City Archives, family card Eliazer Simons (1895), archive cards of Clara Simons and Mozes Rodrigues; residence card Staalkade 6 bhs Amsterdam with Clara Simons and Mozes Rodrigues; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Clara Simons, Clara Rodrigues-Simons, Mozes Rodrigues and Joseph Rodrigues and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl/transport 12 December 1942.