Emanuel Mossel, born in 1869 in Amsterdam, was a son of Salomon Mossel and Batzebah van den Berg. When he married on 2 August 1893 in Weesp, aged 24, the also 24-year old Jansje Wonder from Weesp, a daughter of the butcher Levie Joseph Wonder and Elisabeth Isaac de Haag, his trade was diamond polisher. The couple had three children, namelij Elisabeth in 1894, Alida in 1895 and Hendrika in 1897. They were killed all in the Shoah.
After his wedding with Jansje Wonder, they lived among others at Uilenburger- straat 50 and per April 1895 at Rapenburg 16 in Amsterdam. However, working in the diamond trade, Emanuel Mossel and his family went several times to Belgium. They stayed for example since 12 October 1910 at Carnotstraat 13-15 in Borgerhout, a disctrict of the city of Antwerp. In June 1920, only Emanuel and his wife Janse arrived again in Antwerp and they settled at Jozef Balstraat 29 in the municipality of Berchem.
Emanuel’s wife Jansje Wonder however passed away in Amsterdam on 14 October 1923; she was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. About half a year later, Emanuel Mossel married again on 29 March 1924 in Antwerp with Lea Marie Catherine Brisy, who was born 28 March 1895 in Wibrin (province of Belgian Luxembourg), but on 12 Otober 1931 the Amsterdam District Court pronounced the divorce by default since there was no place or residence or stay known of the defendant and of which the registration was entered into the Marriage and Divorce Register in The Hague on 6 February 1932.
Those days, Emanuel Mossel lived in Amsterdam at Vrolikstraat 144 3rd floor. He married the third time in Amsterdam on 30 March 1932 Mirjam Mulder, a daughter of Moses Salomon Mulder and Hendrika Gendering. She was a sister of Esther Mulder, who passed in 1936 and who was married in 1906 to Israël van Polen. Afterwards Emanuel and Mirjam lived at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 104 ground floor and since April 1936 at Nieuwe Achtergracht 107 ground floor.
On 17 April 1943 Emanuel and Mirjam were deported from there last Amsterdam address to Westerbork, where they had to stay in barrack 68. On 27 April both were put on transport to Sobibor, were they have been killed immediately on arrival there on 30 April 1943.
City archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Emanuel Mossel; the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 136529 Berchem and Borgerhout; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, certificate of divorce of Emanuel Mossel/Lea Marie Catherine Brisy and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Emanuel Mossel and Mirjam Mossel-Mulder.