Moses Samson, born 14 July 1859 in Rotterdam, was a son of Samson Anthonij Samson and Elisabeth Brandel. He married 18 August in Amsterdam in 2nd wedlock at the age of 62 the 50-year old Mietje Goudsmit from Amsterdam, the eldest daughter of Jacob Goudsmit and Jansje Cohen
Moses Samson was previously married, on 20 June 1883 in Rotterdam to Maria Schaap, a daughter of David Schaap and Hendrika la Costa. He had with her three children, namely David, Elizabeth and Samson Moses. David was mixed married, had two children, was sent to Westerbork between 3 and 5 October 1942 but was discharged there on 16 December 1942 and survived the was. Elizabeth also was mixed married but she died before the war in 1937. Samson Moses however, who was married twice, in 1918 to Nenna Bekker from whom he divorced in 1932 and in 1939 to Marie Löwy from Vienna, has been killed in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
Moses’ first wife Maria Schaap passed on 29 September 1919 in Rotterdam at the age of 61 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam. Moses’ 2nd wife Mietje Goudsmit passed away in Amsterdam on 20 February 1942. She ws 70 years of age and has been buried 23 February in the Jewish Cemetery in Muiderberg.
Moses Samson arrived in 1923 from Rotterdam in Amsterdam and lived at various addresses in the city. With Mietje Goudsmit, he lived 2 June 1939 at Amstel 61 and in February 1941 they were registered at the address Amstellaan 56 1st floor in Amsterdam. However, after the passing of his wife Mietje, Moses moved 19 October 1942 to Rapenburgerstraat 175, from where he was arrested and carried off to Westerbork on 30 Januaryh 1943. Already on 2 Febuary he has been deported to Auschwitz and on arrival there on 5 February 1943, Moses Samson has been immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdm, family registration card and archive card of Moses Samson, archive cards of Marie Löwy, Mietje Goudsmit, David Samson; City Achive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Moses Samson; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration cards of Elizabeth Smith-Samson; website wiewaswie.nl; website hetstenenarchief.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Moses Samson, of David Samson and Samson Moses Samson.