Mozes Gobes, a son of Andries Gobes and Schoontje da Costa da Fonseca, was born on 22 April 1893 in Amsteram. When he was still unmarried, he worked as diamond polisher. Later he runned his own barbershop at Blasiusstraat 130 groundfloor. Mozes married in Amsterdam on 21 July 1920 the seamstress Clara Kapper, a daughter of Meijer Kapper and Judith Leon. On 9 January 1924 the twin Jeannette and Judith was born.
Not long before Mozes married Clara, he already lived in with his Kapper in-laws, who lived at Blasiusstraat 118. In September 1921 they moved into living space at Blasiusstraat 109, where they lived in with Beugeltas. In 1922 they returned to nr. 118 and lived in again with Judith Leon, who had been widowed on 16 April 1922 from Meijer Kapper.
On 24 November 1926, when the twin-sisters Jeannette and Judith were almost 2 years old, the Gobes family moved to Blasiusstraat 138 groundfloor and per 13 June 1933 to nr. 130 groundfloor, where, already up from April 1926, Mozes’ barbershop was established.
Mozes Gobes received the so-called “Joodsch Lokaal Sperre” (the Jewish Business Sperre), so his barbershop – as part of the anti-Jewish measures the Germans implemented – was designated to serve mandatory and only Jewish clients. An additional “advantage”was that the entire Gobes family was exempted from deportation until further notice.
Mozes’ daughter Judith decided to marry Jonas Dingsdag on 22 July 1942. He was a son of Levie Dingsdag and Mietje Theeboom and born on 14 August 1916 in Amsterdam. He earned his money as a professional goldsmith. Jonas already came living in on 8 June 1941 with the Gobes family in the Blasiusstraat. And as the husband of Judith Gobes, also Jonas was provisionally exempted from deportation.
But on 20 June 1943, during the large-scale and secretly prepared round-up, fate also befell the entire Gobes family. That Sunday, Mozes Gobes, his wife Clara, daughter Judith and her husband Jonas Dingsdag were arrested and carried off to Westerbork. Daughter Jeannette however had been already deported to Westerbork during the raid of 20 May 1943 and murdered in Sobibor on 28 May 1943.
More than 5500 Jews from Amsterdam were arrested that Sunday 20 June 1943 and transported by train to Westerbork. Mozes Gobes then ended up in barrack 93, his wife Clara in barrack 58 and their son-in-law Jonas in the penal barrack 67. Of Judith Dingsdag-Gobes is this however not known. All were deported to Sobibor on 29 June 1943 and upon arrival there on 2 July 1943 immediately murdered in the gas chambers.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Mozes Gobes and Jonas Dingsdag, archive cards of Mozes Gobes, Clara Kapper and Jonas Dingsdag; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Mozes Gobes, Clara Gobes-Kapper, Jeannette Gobes, Judith Dingsdag-Gobes and Jonas Dingsdag; the Wikipedia website Razzia 20 June 1943 and the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.