Maurits van Noord, the only son of Leendert van Noord and Marie van Geldere, was born on 24 May 1920 in Amsterdam. He lived with his parents there in the Rapenburgerstraat and move don 6 April 1938 with them to Muiderstraat 35 2nd floor. He worked as an office clerk for a company which dealt in bike parts and he was unmarried.
On 20 July 1942, Maurits was called up for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz” – the provision of additional work in Germany – but because of the “Sperre” of his father – his exemption from deportation because of function – Maurits was (temporarily) exempted from deportation on the 23rd. Most likely, Maurits went home and his parents and he have discussed what would be the best way to go into hiding.
A note on his archive card from the City Archive of Amsterdam shows, that Maurits on 15 September 1942 has been “hospitalized” in the Provincial Hospital in the municipality of Bloemendaal, the psychiatric institution Meer-en-Berg in Santpoort. The website “Bloemendaal 1940-1945” mentioned too, that in 1942 and early 1943 about 200 Jews in the Provincial Hospital near Santpoort, enabled by the Hospital Board, had themselves admitted as patiënts and went into hiding in this way. (Copyright 2010-2012 Webmaster 1940-1945.bloemendaal.nl). Also his parents succeeded in admitting themselves as patients in the psychiatric institution in Warnsveld, part of the Oude en Nieuwe Gasthuis in Zutphen on 16 November 1942.
Research into the events between 4 January 1943 and 5 February 1943 suggests that after the German confiscation of the grounds and buildings of the Provincial Hospital in Santpoort, for the construction of the Atlantic Wall, Maurits van Noord was not one of the 1334 patients and the 404 members of staff, who were evacuated after 4 January 1943 to the psychiatric institutions Willem Arntzhoeve in Den Dolder and Groot Graffel in Warnsveld, a part of the Oude en Nieuwe Gasthuis in Zutphen.
Before mid-January, when the institution in Santpoort had to be empty by order of the occupier, Maurits would have looked elsewhere for a hiding place, where he was still arrested. After interrogation at an Amsterdam police station, Maurits was imprisoned in the "Oranjehotel" in Scheveningen, from where, according to "the list 's-Gravenhage" he was transferred to Westerbork on 5 February 1943.
Of course, the transfer from Scheveningen/The Hague to Westerbork had to be paid for and a new ticket was issued for Maurits to Hooghalen, with which he was allowed to travel by train to Westerbork on that date, presumably under guardance. His registration card of the Jewish Council mentions "BNH", Biljet Naar Hooghalen.(Ticket To Hooghalen). On 7 February, Maurits was locked in in the penal barrack 66 in Westerbork and two days later, on 9 February 1943 deported to Auschwitz. On arrival in Auschwitz on ±12 February 1943, the 23-year-old Maurits was selected as a forced labourer, but it is not known where and in which “Arbeitskommando” he ended up, nor is known his exact date of death.
Therefore, the Dutch Authorities have established after the war, also based on testimonials from survivors, research and other information, that Maurits no longer could be alive after 30 November 1943. The Municipality of Amsterdam then was commissioned to draw up a certificate of death for Maurits van Noord, in which is established that he has died on 30 November 1943 in the vicinity of Auschwitz.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Leendert van Noord, archive card of Maurits van Noord; website Bloemendaal 1940-1945; John Stienen/info evacuation Santpoort-Den Dolder and penal transport Oranjehotel-Westerbork; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Maurits van Noord; Raymund Schütz/BNH; the death certificate nr. 97 dated 26 May 1953 for Maurits van Noord from the A-register 100-folio 18 and a part of the book by Marco Gietema, Cecile aan de Stegge, “Vergeten slachtoffers, psychiatrische inrichting de Willem Arntzhoeve in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Amsterdam, Boom, 2017.