Moordes de Vries was a cloth vendor on the street market. In 1941 he suffered from nervous attacks, due to the increasing difficult life for the Jews. When restorative medication would not produce any result, his g.p. (medical doctor) advised to be hospitalized in the Apeldoornsche Bosch in early 1942. However on 23 January 1943, as the Germans “emptied” the Central Israelitic Psychiatric Hospital (Het Apeldoornsche Bosch) in Apeldoorn, Moordes de Vries, as well the nursing staff as all other patients, were deported to Auschwitz. On arrival there 25 January 1943 Moordes de Vries and all others have been immediately killed.
Source: Lex Lesgever, Ellis and Elisabeth, daughter of Theresienstadt, a true story, Amsterdam, boekerij 2013, page 32.