Lena Reis was the third of the nine children of Barend Reiss and Hanna Marie Root. She was working as seamstress and cutter of lingerie and as cleaning lady. On 6 January 1937 she married the inlay sole maker Mozes de Vries in Amsterdam, a son of David de Vries and Theodora Haringman. The couple had three children, namely Theodora in April 1937, Hanna Marie in December 1938 and after the divorce Jacob Levie was born in August 1942.
After their wedding, Lena and Mozes lived at Vrolikstraat 28 and 159 and in the Nieuwe Kerkstraat 43 and 49 but their marriage did not last and ended by divorce on 17 July 1941, after which Lena and her children at some point came living in with her mother at the Tugelaweg 97 parterre in Amsterdam.
Her ex, Mozes de Vries remarried Reina Casseres on 27 May 1942 and lived in the Nieuwe Kerkstraat 37 2nd floor in Amsterdam. Eventually Mozes de Vries has been killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau in August/September 1942 and his 2nd wife survived the Shoah. Of the original De Vries family, only Jacob Levie survived the Holocaust; Lena Reiss and her daughters Theodora and Hanna Marie were killed in Sobibor on 11 June 1943.
Sources include City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Barend Reiss, archive cards of Lena Reiss and Mozes de Vries and registration cares from the file cabinet of the Jewish Council of Mozes de Vries, Theodora de Vries, Hanna Marie de Vries and Lena de Vries-Reiss.