Biography

About Elisabeth Mouwes-Tertaas

Elisabeth Tertaas, a daughter of Mozes Tertaas and Rebecca Leeda, married 19 August 1909 in Amsterdam Simon Mouwes, a son of David Jochem Mouwes and Sara van der Woude. The couple had two children.
Elisabeth was born in a family with seven children. Two of them survived the war. Her other siblings, Hartog, Benjamin, Philip and Gidion, have been killed in the Shoah.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Mozes Tertaas, Simon Mouwes and website www.wiewaswie.nl.