Mozes van Kleef

Mozes van Kleef was a son of Salomon van Kleef and Saartje van Dam who was born in Amsterdam on 16 July 1915. Mozes was an upholsterer and wallpaperer. He married Lena van West on 18 October 1939, who was born in Amsterdam on 16 May 1916 as the daughter of Hartog van West and Bloeme van West. Moses and Lena had no children. 

After they were married, they moved into living quarters at Amstellaan 11…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 51894) 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 2).

The men, "fit for work" who were taken off the train in Cosel were generally in the age group of ± 15 to 50 years, in some individual cases slightly older. Those who remained on the train to be transported to Auschwitz were, broadly speaking, the older, weak or sickly men and the women and children. In general it can be stated that the latter groups were killed by gassing immediately upon arrival …