Mozes Blog, son of Coenraad Blog and Roosje Stodel, was born on 24 June 1906 in Amsterdam. He was a diamond worker by trade, a member of the ANDB (diamond workers syndicate) from 25 January 1937 and classified in the craft group 2. (brilliant polisher servant). He married Lea Bierman, who then worked as a maid, on September 28, 1932, a daughter of Mozes Bierman and Rosalie de Leeuwe. She was born on 18 September 1909. On 4 June 1934, their son Coenraad was born.
The Blog-Bierman couple lived at Plantage Muidergracht 41 2nd floor in Amsterdam. However, the marriage of Moses and Leah did not last; they did not live together since February 1942 and on 19 May 1942 the marriage was dissolved by divorce. Mozes Blog continued to live on the Plantage Muidergracht, as did his son Coenraad, but soon after the divorce, he was placed with his grandparents Coenraad Blog and Roosje Stodel, who lived at 25 II Bertelmanplein in Amsterdam-South.
After his divorce, Mozes Blog made attempts to go into hiding, but still ended up in Westerbork on 30 October 1942. He stayed in barrack 85 and applied to be married in Camp Westerbork to Jette Peereboom, a seamstress at Hollandia Kattenburg and daughter of the widow Alida Peereboom-Peeper. Jette and her mother were taken to Westerbork on 11 November 1942 after the raid on the Hollandia Kattenburg factory in Amsterdam and were housed in barrack 84.
On 12 November 1942 Mozes Blog and Jette Peereboom got married in Westerbork. They stayed in Westerbork until they were sent to concentration camp Vught on 20 February 1943 and there they ended up in barrack 22. However, Jette's mother Alida Peereboom-Peeper was already deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 30 November 1942 and upon arrival there on 3 December 1942 immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Jette Blog-Peereboom was deported on 15 November 1943 with 1148 other deportees in a direct transport from Vught to Auschwitz. On arrival on 18 November, Jette was selected to perform forced labor, but it is not known where she was put to work nor the exact date she lost her life there. Therefore, after the war, the Dutch Ministry of Justice ordered the municipality of Amsterdam to draw up a death certificate for Jette Blog-Peereboom, in which was establishced that she died on 31 January 1944 in the vicinity of Auschwitz.
Mozes Blog was also sent from Westerbork to camp Vught on 20 February 1943, where he stayed until 21 March 1944. Then he was deported via Westerbork to Auschwitz on 23 March 1944. After arrival of the transport on 25/26 March 1944, Mozes Blog was put to work as a prisoner 175333 in Auschwitz III, the Monowitz-Buna complex. Eventually he ended up in the “Häftlingskrankenbau” - the hospital for prisoners of Monowitz, where he was killed on 8 February 1945.
A part from the text of the website Monowitz Concentration Camp: More than 10,000 prisoners were victims of the selection during the period in which the camp operated. Taken to the main camp's hospital, most victims were killed by a lethal injection of phenol to the heart. Some were sent to Birkenau where they were liquidated after “re-selection” in the Bllf prison hospital or in most cases murdered in the gas chambers. More than 1,600 other prisoners died in the hospital at Monowitz, and many were shot at the construction site or hanged at the camp. An estimated 10,000 Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners lost their lives because of working for IG Farben. (source: wikipedia Monowitz concentration camp).
Other sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Mozes Blog and Lea Bierman; family registration card of Mozes Blog; the membership card of Mozes Blog of the ANDB; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Mozes Blog and Jette Peereboom; death certificate made out in Amsterdam for Jette Peereboom dated 24 August 1951 nr. 474 from the A-register 84-folio 81; website Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau/Mozes Blog; Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl and the Wikipedia website Monowitz Concentration Camp.