Biography

About Mozes Kokernoot

Mozes Kokernoot was a son of Joseph Kokernoot and Saartje Wijnschenk. His father has been killed in Auschwitz already on 19 August 1942; his mother passed away in 1926 and in 1927 his father remarried Rebecca Polak. Mozes Kokernoot married Auguste Levy from Frankfurt am Main in Amsterdam on 22 February 1942, a daughter of Rosalie Levy-Schäfer from Roes near Cochem (Germany) and Adolf Levy. (Auguste's parents were already divorced in Frankfurt am Main on 16 November 1922). Mozes Kokernoot and his wife Auguste were deported from transitcamp Westerbork to Auschwitz on 24 July 1942; they have been killed both in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Mozes Kokernoot, Auguste Levy, Rosalie Levy-Schäfer and the File Cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, records of Mozes Kokernoot and Auguste Levy.