Maurits Scheffer was a son of Wolf Scheffer and Reine Pachter. He married 11 October 1939 in Amsterdam to Esther Mendes, a daughter of Benjamin Mendes and Heintje Wurms. On 11 April 1942 their daughter Willy Henny Scheffer was born. She was killed in Auschwitz, together with her mother, on 14 September 1942.
Maurits’ father, Wolf Scheffer, a dealer, passed away already at age 25 on 20 August 1917 …