Mozes Barend, born 6 September 1893 in Amsterdam, was a son of Salomon Barend and Lena IJzerkoper. He married 25 September 1918 in Amsterdam Eva Waterman, who was born there 3 October 1893 to Emanuel Waterman and Rosette Peereboom. The couple had four children, namely Rosette on 15 July 1919, Lena on 10 October 1920, Martha on 26 August 1923 and Emanuel (Maantje) on 13 June 1930. All members of the Mozes Barend family were killed during the Shoah.
After his wedding to Eva Waterman, they moved to a house at ‘s-Gravesandestraat 32 2nd floor nearby the Oosterpark in Amsterdam. All of their children were born there. Mozes Barend was working as a brilliant adjuster in the diamond industry but during the war he got this job at the Jewish Council; he became a warehouse clerk and youth leader Extracurricular Youth Care at Plantage Parklaan 9 per 25 May 1942. Mozes Barend, as well his family therefore got a “Sperre”; they were exempted from deportation and the so-called “work expansion in Germany”, until further notice
At the end of May 1943, all exemptions were cancelled. On 1 June 1943, Mozes Barend, his wife Eva Waterman, his eldest but unmarried daughter (seamstress by profession) and their youngest son Emanuel were put on transport to Sobibor and on arrival there on 4 June 1943, they were immediately killed.
Because of her father’s exemption (Sperre) also Lena Barend was exempted from deportation until further notice. She was unmarried too and worked as a seamstress and dressmaker. From notes of her registration card of the Jewish Council it appeared that she has been discharged from the Hollandse Schouwburg and as well once too from the concentration camp Vught. Exact dates however are missing. Known is however, that after all exemptions were cancelled by the Germans, she was deported from Westerbork to Sobibor on 25 May 1943 and on arrival there on 28 May 1943 immediately killed.
Also Martha Barend was still single; she worked as a seamstress and domestic aid, but previously as an office clerk. From her registration card of the Jewish Council, it appeared that she arrived at some point in 1943 (probably spring) in concentration camp Vught and that she arrived from there in Westerbork on 6/7 May 1943. Not known is when Martha Barend has been put on transport to the East, however her certificate of death shows that she has died in the surrounding area of Auschwitz in Poland. Her official date and place of death therefore was established by the Dutch Ministry of Justice as on 31 January 1944 in Auschwitz.
Sources include the Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Mozes Barend, archive cards of Eva Waterman, Rosette Barend, Lena Barend, Martha Barend and Emanuel Barend; Wikipedia list of Jew Transports from the Netherlands; certificate of death for Martha Barend, reg. A83-fol.83-cert.488 dated 17 Aug 1951, drawn up by the City of Amsterdam and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Mozes Barend, Eva Barend-Waterman, Rosette Barend, Lena Barend, Martha Berend (wrong spelled) and Emanuel Barend.