David Vos, son of Mozes Vos and Maria Polak, was born on 27 May 1899 in Amsterdam. He was a journalist for the “Handelsblad” by profession, but started as an office clerk and became later an administrator. On 19 May 1926 he married in Amsterdam Sipora Veffer, who was born on 5 January there as a daughter of Abraham Veffer and Catharina Appelboom. On 8 July 1928 their daughter Maria Catharina was born.
The Vos-Veffer couple lived at Retiefstraat, at Vrolikstraat, Transvaalstraat and as their latest address since 3 October 1928 at Christiaan de Wetstraat 32 in Amsterdam-East. Sipora Veffer as well her daughter Maria Catharina have survived the Holocaust; David Vos eventually has been killed on 28 January 1944 in Auschwitz.
Notes on his registration card of the Jewish Council show, that David Vos (for reasons unknown to us), had been sent to the Scheveningen prison on 12 March 1942. From there he was transferred on 17 July 1942 to Camp Amersfoort, where he stayed until 18 January 1943 and where he “has been ill” according to notes on his camp card fromVught. That 18th of January he has arrived in concentration camp Vught and on 31 March 1943 again transferred, now to Westerbork. There he ended up in barrack 6, the camp hospital, where David Vos stayed in ward 3, the men’s department. Later David Vos was accommodated in barrack 57. On 25 January 1944 he was put on transport to Auschwitz and upon arrival there on 28 January 1944 immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of David Vos, archive cards of David Vos and Sipora Veffer; website ITS Arolson/camp card Vught of David Vos and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of David Vos, Sipora Vos-Veffer and Maria Catharina Vos. See also the next story by NIOD.