Marianne Nunes Vaz was a daughter of the musician Jacob Nunes Vaz (1823) and Ester Baruch Benavente (1822). She was born into a large family with at least eleven children. Some of them died already in childhood – others still before the war.
Marianne was unmarried and for a living she sold “rags”(fabrics), for which she had a standing place on Monday’s on the street market in Westerstraat in Amsterdam since 31 March 1924. As an unmarried woman, she lived in with other families at dozens of addresses in the city.
On 23 January 1943, Marianne Nunes Vaz was carried off to Westerbork. At the time of the mandatory registration of the Jews by the Jewish Council was her address in Amsterdam recorded as Blasiusstraat 131. On 31 January 1943 Marianne was accomodated in the so-called "old peoples barrack" in Westerbork which was barrack 84. On 12 August 1943, Expo (part of the Jewish Council) requested forwarding of her Identity Card (I.D.) for stamping 10.000 on the list of Portuguese.
On 8 February 1944 Marianne Nunes Vaz died in Camp Westerbork and on 9 Feberuary she has been cremated there. The urn with her ashes was later buried at the Portuguese Israëlitic Cemetery in Ouderkerk a.d. Amstel.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Marianne Nunes Vaz; Registeration in the Amsterdam Peoples Registry of Marianne Nunes Vaz with date of birth of 1 January 1858 and 17 January 1858; birth certificate 1-7v dated 4 January 1858 for Marianne Nunes Vaz with her d.o.b. as 1 January 1858 and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Marianne Nunes Vas (should be Vaz).