Meta Edie Coltof, a daughter of Salomon Coltof and Clara Emma de Beer, was born on 9 November 1909 in Den Helder. She married there on 28 August 1934 the dentist Isidore Emanuel van Moppes, who was born in Amsterdam on 11 July 1907. The couple had two children, namely on 7 August 1935 Greta Clara and on 10 May 1939 Clara Mirjam followed. The family lived at Noorder Amstellaan 304 ground floor and since mid-August 1939 at Stadionweg 88.
The entire family of Isidore Emanuel van Moppes was carried off in August 1942 to Westerbork. They would have been put on transport from there to Auschwitz on 1 September, however, their deportation has been postponed as on 1 September no transports departed. But on 11 September their deportation went still along and arrived in Auschwitz on 14 September 1942. On arrival there Meta Edie van Moppes-Coltof and her daughters Greta Clara and Clara Mirjam van Moppes were immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
On the other hand, Isidore Emanuel van Moppes has survived Auschwitz. Probably on arrival in September 1942 he has been put to work as a forced labourer but eventually he was able to return from Auschwitz in some transport via Marseille to Amsterdam and on 30 January 1946 he found an accommodation in Amsterdam at Johannes Verhulststraat 139. Isidore Emanuel van Moppes remarried on 29 August 1946 in Amsterdam and had with his 2nd spouse again two children.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Isidore Emanuel van Moppes, Meta Edie Coltof, Greta Clara and Clara Mirjam van Moppes and of Cornelia Bleeker; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Ididore Emanuel van Moppes, Meta Edie Coltof, Greta Clara and Clara Mirjam van Moppes.