Marianne Peereboom was a daughter of Gerrit Peereboom and Alida Peeper and a sister of Jette Peereboom, who married Mozes Blog in November 1942 in Camp Westerbork. Marianne was born on 24 December 1904 in Amsterdam and worked as a raincoat seamstress. On 3 June 1936 she married Levie Mok in Amsterdam, who was born there on 12 February 1901 as the son of Philip Mok and Roosje Deutz. On 5 May 1937 they had a son, Gerrit.
The Mok-Peereboom couple lived at Retiefstraat 21 in Amsterdam-East, where Levie had a fruit and vegetable store. On this basis, as a "supplier of foodstuffs" he received a special "Sperre" from the Jewish Council, the so-called "Joodsch Lokaal Sperre" (exemption), which meant that his business was designated by the German occupiers for only Jewish residents of the district who were allowed to do their shopping there and that they themselves were not yet drafted into the so-called "Arbeitseinsatz".
Nevertheless, the Mok family decided to go into hiding. Their son Gerrit turned up after the war; he stayed on 17 April 1947 at Merenstraat 47 in Hoorn and has survived the Holocaust. The hiding of Levie and his wife Marianne obviously failed as on 14 November 1942, both were brought into Westerbork.
Marianne Peereboom has been deported already to Auschwitz on 23 November. On arrival there on 25/26 November 1942 she was not immediately gassed but was apparently still put to work somewhere. Conditions in Auschwitz were inhumane, where many were killed instantly and others as incapable workers in the gas chambers. Marianne Mok-Peereboom also lost her life there on 3 December 1942.
One week later, on 30 November 1942, Levie Mok was deported to the East. The transport was a so-called “Kozel transport”, where during a stopover in Kozel, located ± 80 km west of Auschwitz, 200 boys and men between the ages of 15 and 50 were forced to leave the train and put to work as forced laborers in the surrounding labor camps. Those who stayed behind in the train were transported further to Auschwitz to be murdered or put to work elsewhere in the Auschwitz complex.
It is not known whether Levie Mok belonged to the group of 200 men who had to leave the train in Kozel, or whether Levie was put to work elsewhere on arrival in Auschwitz. His exact date of death is also unknown. That is why after the war the Dutch Ministry of Justice ordered the Municipality of Amsterdam to draw up a death certificate for Levie Mok, stating that he died on 31 March 1944 in Mid-Europe.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Marianne Peereboom and Levie Mok; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Levie Mok, Marianne Mok-Peereboom and Gerrit Mok; website “Het Geheugen van Oost/distributie groente en aardappelen”; Death certificates for Marianne Mok-Peereboom no. 568 dated. 8 May 1951 from the A-register 73-folio 96verso and for Levie Mok no. 509 dated 8 January 1952 from the A-register 92-folio 86verso and the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.