Mozes Vogel, son of Isaäc Vogel and Trijntje Lubig, was born in Amsterdam on 13 June 1891 and earned his living as a vendor of flowers. He married Sara Bril on 14 August 1913, a 20-year old daughter of Jacob Bril and Gesina Mol, who was born in Amsterdam too on 11 February 1893.
When Mozes and Sara were married in August 1913, they moved into living space at Valkenburgerstraat 111 2nd floor front side. They eventually lived there with a family of seven people until 14 May 1926, when they moved to Lange Leidschedwarsstraat 39 3rd floor whilst Valkenburgerstraat 111 was per 21 March 1927 declared as “uninhabitable”. In one of the three houses at the Lange Leidschedwarsstraat in which the Vogel family has resided, their youngest son Abraham was born on 20 March 1932.
Mozes and Sara had six children: Isaac on 25 October 1913, Gesina on 27 August 1915, Trijntje on 28 August 1917, Jacob on 2 October 1919, Salomon op 9 October 1922 and the already previously mentioned late arrival: Abraham Vogel in 1932.
During the first days of October 1942, the Germans held large-scaled round-ups, whereby also some members of the Vogel family were arrested and carried off to Westerbork. They were brought there on 4 October: Mozes, most likely also his wife Sara Bril and their sons Salomon and Abraham. Of Salomon it is uncertain, but Mozes, Sara and Abraham definitively were put on transport to Auschwitz on 19 October 1942 and upon arrival there on 22 October 1942 immediately murdered in the gas chambes of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
However, it is certain that Salomon Vogel has survived the Holocaust. It appeared from the archives of the City of Amsterdam that he lived at Scheldestraat 115 3rd floor in Amsterdam on 15 January 1948. Also his sister Gesina survived the war. On 25 May 1955 she stayed in Brussels with her husband, Gerrit Bakker, to whom she got married in 1935.
On orders of the BdS in Den Haag (Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD), the Commander of the Security Police and the SD, the Security Service) Jacob Vogel has been arrested because he was a Jew, taken in so-called “Schutzhaft” (protective custody) and transported to concentration camp Amersfoort on 4 July 1942. He stayed there for 12 days and would have been deported to Mauthausen, however on 16 July 1942 he was put on transport to Auschwitz where he was murdered on 18 August 1942.
Also Isaac and Trijntje were registered in Westerbork already on 23 July 1942. They had complied with the call of early July 1942 for the “Arbeitseinsatz”, the provision of additional work under police surveillance in Germany. On 23 June 1942, Himmler had ordered that all Jews from France, Belgiun and the Netherlands had to be deported to the Gouvernment General in Poland. On 31 July 1942 they have been put on transport to Auschwitz in a transport of 1007 deportees in total.
On arrival in Auschwitz, ca. 2 or 3 August, Isaac and Trijntje were put to work but it is unknown where and what the work entailed. After the war, it became clear that the circumstances in Auschwitz were inhumane and that there was a great mortality among the employed due to hardship, diseases or gassing.
After the war, the Dutch Authorities have established, partly on the basis of research and testimonies of survivors, that Isaac and Trijntje Vogel no longer could be alive after 30 September 1942. The Municipality of Amsterdam then was commissioned to draw up certificates of death for them in which it is stated that Isaac Vogel and Trijntje Vogel have died in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Isaac Vogel (1861), Jacob Bril (1861) and Mozes Vogel; archive cards of Mozes Vogel, Sara Bril and of Isaac, Gesina, Trijntje, Jacob, Salomon and Abraham Vogel; residence card Amsterdam/Valkenburgerstrata 111 2nd floor/front; website ITS Arolson/Jacob Vogel (1919); info Camp Amersfoort/Jacob Vogel; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Mozes Vogel, Sara Vogel-Bril and of Isaac, Trijntje, Jacob, Salomon and Abraham Vogel.