Salomon Mozes Lievendag was a son of Joseph Lievendag and Rachel Dikker. He was unmarried and was the youngest of the four children his parents had. His sister Sophie and he himself were killed in the Shoah; the other two had died as babies already.
Salomon Mozes Lievendag lived as a boarder in the house of the Samuel Muller family at Hoge Bothofstraat 84. He was employed at Messrs. Krikke in Enschede as cargo bike rider. Lievendag had to transport luggage from Jewish families to the station, who had to report in Enschede for deportation. A relative of the Muller family remembers that Lievendag always whistled then the well known German song “Bei mir bist du schön”.
Salomon Mozes was locked in at Westerbork 18 November 1942 and put on transport to Auschwitz 24 November 1942. This transport of more than 700 deportees, stopped also in Kozel, which was located about 80 km west from Auschwitz. During the period between 28 August and 12 December 1942 thousands of boys and men between 15 and 50 years were forcedly unloaded in Kozel – according the Germans suitable to work – to be put to work as forced labourer in the surrounding camps in that region. Those who remained in the trains, were deported further to Auschwitz and on arrival killed there. From the in total 3500 deportees from The Netherlands who had to leave the trains in Kozel, only 181 survived.
Simon Mozes was 33 years of age when he was deported and it is not unlikely that he too belonged to the group of 70 men from the transport of 24 November, who forcedly had to leave the train in Kozel. The exact place of his death is unknown; from his certificate of death, made out 26 January 1952 by the Municpality of Enschede on account of a written statement of the Ministry of Justice “of a missing person”, his place and date of death have been officially established as in Mid Europe on 31 March 1944.
Website wiewaswie, certificate of death nr. 100 for of Salomon Mozes Lievendag; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Salomon Mozes Lievendag; Wikipedia website about Kozle and an addition of a visitor of the website.