us-005578-irn537358
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Louis Moses (1930-) was born on 9 February 1930 in Rikswijk, the Netherlands to Froukje (née Hoogstraal, later Vos) and Siemon Moses. Louis had one sister, Engeline. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Louis’s parents sent him into hiding with a Christian family in The Hague. After the neighborhood was deemed unsafe, he was moved to a new family where he was reunited with his mother. They remained there for around a year, and then were moved to a new house in Rijswijk with a family who had built an underground shelter. Louis’s father was also able to join them. In October 1943, Siemon was beaten and arrested by the police, and then turned over to the Germans. He was sent to a Dutch concentration camp where he perished. Louis and his mother moved from this location, and continued to hide in several more houses. Their last hiding place was with a Dutch painter. After liberation, Louis and his mother moved back to Rijswijk where they were reunited with his sister. He married Elly van Leeuwen in 1949, and they moved to Israel. They had two children there, Judith and Jim. The family immigrated to the United States in 1957, where Louis worked in the hospitality industry. Elly Rachel van Leeuwen (later Elly Moses, 1931-) was born on 7 August 1931 in The Hague to Judith DeGroot and Isaac van Leeuwen. Her father owned a bicycle and small appliance shop. Her younger sister Rachel (Chellie) was born in 1936. In 1941, Isaac volunteered to go to the Westerbork transit camp, believing that if he went his family would not be harmed. He was later deported and perished in the Monowitz concentration camp (Auschwitz III). In 1942 Judith placed her two daughters in hiding and spent the rest of the war working as a weapons courier for the Dutch resistance using false papers. Chellie, using the false name Loesje Frederiks, was placed with a Catholic family in Limburg. Elly was hidden first with a lawyer and then on a farm. She was then moved to the home of a family in Midd…
date: circa 1910-circa 1950
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: nld
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn537358
record resource extent: folders 7
record resource structure: The collection is arranged as one series.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The collection contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Moses and DeGroot families in the Netherlands.
title: Moses and DeGroot families photographs