Biography

About Mozes Lampie and his wife Bertha Cohen.

Mozes Lampie, a son of Salomon Lampie and Sara van Kollem, was born in Amsterdam on 11 September 1891 and he was employed as manager in a home furnishings company. On 22 July 1915 he married Bertha Cohen in Amsterdam, a daughter of Jacob Levie Cohen and Carolina Bos. She was born in Amsterdam on 14 March 1890. The couple had three sons, viz. Salomon in 1916, Jacob in 1918 and Willem in 1924. 

After the marriage was concluded in 1915, they together moved into a house at Nieuwe Amstelstraat 26 2nd level, where their three children were born. They moved on 9 December 1931 to Joden Houttuinen 64 2nd level and on 15 November 1932 to Weesperstraat 62 2nd floor, where the family has lived until mid-November 1940.

Their son Salomon married Betje van Kleef on 8 November 1939 and they then moved into accommodation at Nieuwe Herengracht 51, where Salomon also had a bed- and blanket shop. He was also an upholsterer and wallpaperer. On 5 April 1941 they moved into a dwelling at Houtmarkt 19 I (called Jonas Daniël Meijerplein before the war). The other family members then moved on 13 November 1940 to Weesperstraat 18 II.

Mozes and Bertha have been arrested and taken from their home and through the Hollandsche Schouwburg carried off to Westerbork. On 4 December their deportation followed to Auschwitz where Mozes Lampie and his wife Bertha Lampie-Cohen were immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau upon arrival there on 7 December 1942. 

Souces include the City archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Mozes Lampie, archive cards of Mozes Lampie and Bertha Cohen and Salomon, Jacob and Willem Lampie; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Mozes Lampie and Bertha Lampie-Cohen and the Wikipedia list of Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl/4 December 1942.

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