Maurits Mossel
Maurits Mossel was in kindergarten of the Sixth Montessori School together with Anne Frank.
Person
Maurits Mossel was a son of Aaron Mossel (1908-1943) and Reine Mouw (1907-1942).[1] Maurits' father was an optician by profession;[2] his mother was a seamstress.[3] They were married on 19 December 1928 in Amsterdam. Maurits was the eldest of three children; Henny (1930) and Sal (1932) were his younger sister and brother.
Mauirits was enrolled by Preparatory School No. 51 on 7 June 1935.[4] In the 1935 photograph of the kindergarten class, Maurits is the little boy with his arms crossed, diagonally right in front of Anne Frank. Anne is in the back centre, in a white dress.[5] After the Sixth Montessori School, Maurits went to the Jewish Montessori School on Daniël Willinkplein.[6]
On 2 and 3 October 1942, the Germans deployed all possible men plus the entire Amsterdam police force for the largest raid in Amsterdam and the province up to that time. This included the Mossel family.[7] Together with his parents, sister and little brother, Maurits Mossel was put on a transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 26 October 1942, where they were murdered on 29 October 1942.[8]
Maurits Mossel is commemorated on a plaque hanging in the hall of the 6th Montessori School Anne Frank.[9]
Source personal data.[1] Address: Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 31-III, Amsterdam.[1]
Footnotes
- a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Maurits Mossel.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Aäron Mossel. His card in the Jewish Council's files lists his profession as diamond worker: Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek, DocID: 130344673 (Aaron MOSSEL).
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Aäron Mossel; Archiefkaart Reine Mouw.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Montessori_I_001: Administratie leerlingen K.O. "de Blauwe Zeedistel", volgnummer 418.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_AFrank_III_055.067: Leerlingen uit de klas van Anne Frank op de Zesde Montessorischool, Amsterdam, 1935.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Montessori_I_002: Inschrijvingsboek voor leerlingen van de Zesde Montessorischool, 29 augustus 1932 t/m 6 april 1959, volgnummer 141.
- ^ Arolsen Archives, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek, DocID: 130344673 (Aaron MOSSEL).
- ^ Joods Monument: Maurits Mossel.
- ^ Geheugen van Plan Zuid: Plaquette Anne Frankschool.
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Klassenfoto van Anne op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, 1935
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