During the war, Rachel Vieijra-Mossel gave a canteen with silver cutlery to the principal of the New Christian Home for the Elderly in Doorn. Mrs. Vieijra wrote her a postcard with the request to come to Amsterdam to pick up a box filled with wool. Because she suspected the box to be filled with something else, the principal immediately came to Amsterdam. She was handed the canteen with cutlery for savekeeping. Some of the tabelspoons were gilted. Fear of discovery by German authorities or theft lead to the principal hiding the canteen on the attic.
After the war when it became clear that Rachel Vieijra-Mossel died in camp Westerbork, the Dutch Red Cross tracked down descendants of Rachel Vieijra-Mossel in Israel. The cutlery was given to them during a visit in The Netherlands.
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Rachel Vieijra-Mossel died on 8 July 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and she was cremated on 12 July 1943. The urn with her ashes was placed on the Portugese-Jewish cemetry in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel on field 1924, row U, grave nr. 4.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789