Emanuel Montezinos, born on 18 July 1907 in Amsterdam as a son of Raphaël Montezinos and Esther Silva Abenatar, married on 26 March 1929 in Borgerhout (B) Stephania Vos, who was born in Borgerhout on 9 October 1909, daughter of Andries Vos and Aaltje Bonn. The couple had two children, namely Raphaël, who was born in 1934 in Amsterdam and Alida, who was born in Borgerhout in 1937; both survived the Holocaust.
Emanuel Montezinos was a diamond worker, brilliant polisher and later active as a furrer. On 16 August 1927 he left for Antwerp and from there to Borgerhout, where he came living at the Bleekhofstraat. After his marriage in 1929, the Montezinos-Vos couple commuted back and forth a few times, from Deurne to Amsterdam in 1930 and back, in 1931 again to Amsterdam, where they stayed then till in 1936, and then they left again for Deurne.
In July 1940 Stephania and her two children left Deurne for Amsterdam where they came living in with her father Andries Vos, who then lived at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 92 1st floor. They left for Tilanusstraat 30 ground floor on 17 April 1941 and also her spouse Emanuel Montezinos joinend them from Deurne in Amsterdam then.
The Montezinos family went into hiding, but Emanuel and Stephania were arrested in the spring of 1943 – presumably betrayed – and ended up in Westerbork on 4 June 1943 and had to wait for their deportation in barrack 63. On 20 July they were put on transport with the 19th and last train from Westerbork to Sobibor – a transport of more than 2200 deportees – where on arrival on 23 July 1943 they have been gassed in the gas chambers there immediately.
Their children, Raphaël and Alida have survived the Holocaust by hiding. According to reports of 30 September 1948 from the O.P.K (War Foster Children) Raphaël was found with the W. Versloot family in Leerdam and Alida with the Sleutelberg family in Gouda.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Raphaël Montezinos and Emanuel Montezinos, archive cards of Emanuel Montezinos and Stephania Vos; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Emanuel Montezinos, Stephania Montezinos-Vos, Raphaël and Alids Montezinos; residence card of Nieuwe Prinsengracht 92 1st floor Amsterdam and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.