Elisabeth Mok was the fifth child of Isaak Aron Mok and Jeannette Natkiel. She was born 10 December 1878 into a family of eight children in total. Her siblings were Roosje (1869), Hendrika (1872), Rebecca (1874), Anna (1876), Joseph (1880), Aäron (1882) en Sara (1886). Joseph Mok died however in 1923 in Amsterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Elisabeth herself and all her other sibs were killed in the Shoah.
Elisabeth Mok married 9 November 1910 in Amsterdam Samuel Bloch, who was born 16 August 1879 in Schoterland in Friesland as son of Heiman Samuels Bloch and Golde van Leer. As far as known, this couple did not have children but had however three foster children at home, namely Gisella Gutman from Berlin, Siegried van Vaanenburg and Daniel Susan, both from Amsterdam.
Samuel Bloch was one of the eight children from the second marriage of his father Heiman Samuels Bloch and Golde van Leer, with whom he married in 1863. His first wife, Clara Cohen died in 1861 after three weeks earlier her daughter Roosje was born, who died after 10 months in 1862. From the second marriage, besides Samuel, seven children were born, of which Vogelina (1864), Roosje (1869), Marianne (1871) and again a Marianne (1884) died before the war. However, his brothers Nathan (1866) and Jacob (1876) were killed in Auschwitz and his sister Anna died in 1941 in Amsterdam.
Of the foster children, who were adopted in the Bloch family is the following known: Gisella Gutman, born 6 June 1918 in Berlin, was the daughter of the unmarried mother Anna Gutman and the granddaughter of the already passed Abram Gutman and his Polish widow Rifka Jutkewitz. Anna Gutman arrived in Amsterdam in July 1921 and worked there as housekeeper and her little daughter Gisella then came to Samuel Bloch and Elisabeth Mok as foster daughter. In March 1925 Gisella with her mother Anna and other Gutman family members left Amsterdam for Antwerp and presumably Gisella has survived the war.
Of Siegfried van Vaanenburg, born 18 June 1914 in Amsterdam is known, that he was adopted in the family of Samuel Bloch and Elisabeth Mok as foster son in July 1923. He left there at the age of 10 for the Central Israëlitic Orphanage in Utrecht. Then nothing is further known of him.
Daniel Susan lived in “Institution 21” at Middenweg in Amsterdam and arrived 6 October 1926 into the family of Samuel Bloch and Elisabeth Mok, who then lived in Rapenburgerstraat 3 2nd floor in Amsterdam. Of Daniel Susan, who was born 31 December 1920 is known that the Regional Employment Office of Amsterdam has placed him as labor force in wartime Germany in the Friedrich Bohne Company in Bremen, where he was employed as a transport worker. He was unmarried and lived in 1941 at Rozengracht 97 1st floor with J.B. Labye. Of his fate is further nothing known.
Elisabeth Mok and her husband Samuel Bloch were registered in Westerbork on 30 September 1942 and deported to Auschwitz on 2 October. On arrival there on 5 October 1942, they were both immediately killed.
Sources among others: City archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Samuel Bloch; archive cards of Samuel Bloch and Elisabeth Mok; the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 166896 for the Gutman family, image 39-56; City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Anna Gutman and the registration of employees for German companiesin 1941 for Daniel Susan; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Samuel Bloch and Elisabeth Bloch-Mok.