In a letter to his mother in 1942 Hans Moritz mentions having stayed at the city orphanage. He went amongst others to the Openluchtschool (open air school). He stayed from 1939 at the family Van Meekren at the Stationskade 116, and in 1943 in the Jewish Quarter.
In 1943 Hans Moritz was employed as an archivist at the financial department of the Jewish Council. He was transported to Westrebork on June 20, 1943. In Westerbork he was a 'message boy'. From Westerbork he was deported to Bergen-Belsen on the 11th of January 1944. On or about the 10th of April 1945, Hans Moritz and 2.000 others were put on transport and were shunted around nothern Germany between the two warfronts over a fortnight. This transport finally stopped in Tröbitz, near Leipzig, where they were liberated by the Russians. Hans Moritz died during the transport or shortly thereafter. Hans died after contracting Typhoid.
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