Biography

About Eva Moscoviter-Leeuwaarden

Eva Leeuwaarden was a daughter of Meijer Aron Leeuwaarden and Margaretha Gobes. She married 8 July 1891 in Amsterdam Meijer Moscoviter, a son of Levie Moscoviter and Rachel Cohen. The couple had seven children, of whom two daughters have died as babies. Two children, Elisabeth and Aron have survived the Holocaust and three children, namely Rachel, Levie and Margaretha were killed in the Shoah.

Meijer Moscoviter was a diamond polisher and lived some years with his family in Antwerp before they returned to Amsterdam. He passed away in Amsterdam 24 February 1919 and was interred one day later in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Eva Leeuwaarden was sent to Camp Westerbork on 27 March 1943, stayed there in barack 61 till she was deported to Sobibor on 6 April, where she was killed immediately upon arrival there on 9 April 1943.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Eva Leeuwaarden, websites www.wiewaswie.nl and www.akevoth/mokum/burialpermits and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Eva Moscoviter-Leeuwaarden

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