About Hartog Leman Vos

Hartog Leman Vos, son of Mozes Vos and Mientje Blein, married Paulina Vomberg on 11 August 1927 in Dalfsen. She died on 9 July 1932 in Amsterdam. Hartog Leman Vos remarried on 20 December 1933 in Dwingeloo with the sister of his first wife, Mina Paulina Vomberg. Both marriages remained childless.

Hartog Leman Vos lived in premises at the Brink in Dwingeloo. He was a textile agent. He also fulfilled the role of a kosher butcher. As a local correspondent of the Drentse and Asser Courant and of the Meppeler Courant, he reported on the meetings of the Dwingeloo town council. Hartog Leman also filed other news for these regional papers. He was very committed to his work. The reports of council meetings that still remain bear witness of this. On 2 April 1940 he presented on behalf of all correspondents of regional papers the mayor, W.A. Stork, a new chairman's hammer. The hammer, with its inscription, is still in use by the chairman of the town council.

On Monday, 20 July 1942, Hartog Leman Vos was asked to report to the Westerbork camp. His wife Mina stayed behind in Dwingeloo, until she was taken to Westerbork at the beginning of October 1942, together with all Jewish women still living in Dwingeloo at the time. Hartog Leman and his wife Mina were deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 5 October 1942.
R. Smit, 'Gedeporteerden', in: Dwingeloo in oorlogstijd, 1940-1945 (Beilen zj)


This person is commemorated on a memorial in Dwingelo. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.