Mozes da Cunha was a son of Gerson da Cunha and Debora Gompers. He was born on 17 October 1893 in Amsterdam and he was a waiter by profession. On 1 March 1916 he married the 22-year old Belgian Anna maria Cornelia Verreijdt in Antwerp, a daughter of Philip Verreijdt and Maria Elisabeth de Buijser. The couple Da Cunha-Verreijdt had two children, namely Bertha who was born in Groningen in 1916 and i…