Barend Vos

Barend Vos was the eighth of the ten children of Hijman Vos and Lea van West. He was born on 31 March 1894 at Rapenburg in Amsterdam and married there on 14 March 1917 Naatje Peeper, a daughter of Jesaia Peeper and Sara Erwteman. The couple had a son Leonard, who was born in 1922 in Belgium but he was killed during the Shoah.

Just like his father, Barend worked as diamond worker. Later he became a…

Abigael da Cunha, cloak seamstress by profession, was a daughter of David da Cunha and Helena Stokking. She was born on 1 November 1901 in Antwerp and married on 29 may 1920 in Borgerhout Aron Cosman, a son of Simon Cosman and Abigael Polak. With Aron she had three daughters, namely Sophia, who was  born in Antwerp in 1921, then Helena in Borgerhout in 1924 and in Antwerp again Simonne Carla in 19…

Barend Vos and Abigael da Cunha were married at Westerbork transit camp on 10 October 1942. He was a sales representative and a son of Hijman Vos and Lea van West, both deceased. Barend Vos had been married before to Naatje Peeper; this marriage ended in divorce.
Abigael da Cunha was a daughter of the deceased David da Cunha and of Helena Stokking. She was first married to Aron Cosman; this marria…