Maurits Rodrigues
Maurits Rodrigues was a classmate of Margot Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.
​Maurits Rodrigues was the son of Maurits Rodrigues (1899-1925) and Sara Hamerslag (1903-1943).[1] His father passed away on 12 August 1925, four months before Maurits was born.[2] His mother remarried in January 1927 to diamond cutter Joseph Aardewerk.[3] In 1932, his half-brother Samuel was born.[4]
Maurits was a student at the HBS secondary school at Mauritskade 58 in Amsterdam.[5] Because Jewish students and teachers were banned from attending regular schools as of 1 September 1941, he had to attend the Jewish Lyceum. In the 1941-'42 school year, he was in class 4B2, the same class as Margot Frank.[6]
On 14 July 1942 Maurits arrived in Westerbork. He was deported from there two days later to Auschwitz,[7] where he was murdered on 30 September 1942.[8] His mother, stepfather and half-brother Samuel were deported to Auschwitz via Westerbork a year later, in September 1943.[9] They were murdered immediately upon arrival.[10]
Source personal data.[1] Address: Vrolikstraat 48-II.[1]
Footnotes
- a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Maurits Rodrigues.
- ^ SAA, Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 4661: Register van geboorteakten 1899, deel 04, 129r, akte 3940: Geboorteakte Maurits Rodrigues; SAA, Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 4262: Register van overlijdensakten 1925, deel 7, 56r, akte 4241: Overlijdensakte Maurits Rodrigues.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten Sara Hamerslag en Joseph Aardewerk.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Samuel Aardewerk.
- ^ On 17 July 1941, headmaster C.G. Gerrits submitted a list of all Jewish students at his school. The list contained a total of 47 names, including that of Maurits Rodrigues. Four days later, Gerrits sent a letter to add another Jewish student to the list: SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang: 5191), inv. nr. 7410: Opgave van de 3e Hogere Burgerschool met Vijfjarige Cursus, 17 juli 1941, Ingekomen lijsten van middelbare scholen met opgave van aanwezige Joodse leerlingen.
- ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, W.S.H. Elte (toegang 181e), inv. nr. 2f: Absentenregister klas 4BII Joods Lyceum, 1 maart – 17 juli 1942. Dienke Hondius, Absent: herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam, 1941-1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 282.
- ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130362719 (Maurits RODRIGUES).
- ^ Arolsen Archives, List of names of Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in the Netherlands 1941-1945, DocID: 5152349.
- ^ Arolsen Archives, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130249425 (Sara AARDEWERK HAMERSLAG), DocID: 130249379 (Joseph AARDEWERK) en DocID: 130249424 (Samuel AARDEWERK).
- ^ Joods Monument: Maurits Rodrigues.