Mozes Neeter, born 22 January 1874 in Amsterdam, was a son of Samuel Abraham Neeter and Esther van West. He married Eva Bleekroode from Groningen in Amsterdam on 12 June 1901, a daughter of Abraham Bleekroode and Henderine Polak.
There were six children in the family of Mozes Neeter. At the time of the marriage of Mozes and Eva in 1901, the daughter of the unmarried mother Eva Bleekroode, Henderika Bleekroode, who was born 15 March 1894 in Groningen, was recognized and legalized by Mozes Neeter and received the family name of Neeter. The other children, born in the Neeter family were the twins Samuel and Ester from 1901, Abraham from 1903, Samson from 1905 and Simon from 1907. Only Abraham surivived the Holocaust. His siblings and their families were killed in the Shoah, just like their parents Mozes and Eva.
Mozes Neeter was a diamond worker and worked also in Antwerp. He was also a market vendor in Amsterdam and Groningen, where he has lived also with his family for some time. He traded in old iron and stood, for example, with old bicycle parts during the entire week at the market at Waterlooplein between April 1924 and April 1927.
On 30 March 1907, Mozes Neeter moved from Groningen to Amsterdam with his wife and six children and lived there on ore than eighteen addresses. In October 1940 Mozes and Eva lived in the Rapenburgerstraat 20 ground floor. There, on 4 October, Mozes’ wife Eva Bleekroode passed away; she was interred on 6 Octobe 1940 in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Mozes Neeter later moved to Tweede Jan Steenstraat 66, which was his last known address in Amsterdam.
In the early spring of 1943, Mozes Neeter was carried off to concentration camp Vught, from where he was sent to Westerbork on 31 March 1943. On 6 April 1943 he was deported from Westerbork to Sobibor as a “penal case”, and on arrival there on 9 April 1943, he has been immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Mozes Neeter, register of market vendor permits; website Akevoth/Mokum/burial permits/Eva Bleekroode; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Mozes Neeter and the transport list of 6 April 1943 from Westerbork to Sobibor, “Häflinge” (prisoners)/Mozes Neeter.