Stolpersteine Sint Catharinastraat 4

Abraham Mozes Noach was born on December 6, 1893 in Deventer. In 1927 he moves with his family to Eindhoven, where he becomes a procurator at Philips. Ester Grietje Cohen was born on December 28, 1893 in Arnhem. On 11 November 1919 she married Abraham Mozes Noach in Arnhem. The couple had four children: Max Jacques (September 28, 1920), Jules Frederik (April 27, 1923), Roseke (1931) and Hans (1934). Son Jules Frederik is a horticulturist by trade when the family is imprisoned in Camp Vught. They work there at the Philips-Kommando. On June 3, 1944, the family and the other Philips employees are deported to Auschwitz. Abraham Mozes Noach is murdered in Langebielau on January 19, 1945. Ester Grietje Noach-Cohen is murdered in Auschwitz on December 31, 1944. Max Jacques Noach and Jules Frederik Noach are murdered in Germany on February 28, 1945. The two youngest children, Hans and Roseke, were liberated in Auschwitz at the end of the war. They have lived in Israel since the 1950s. When the stumbling blocks were placed in St. Catharinastraat, Hans came over from Israel and received the honorary medal of the city of Eindhoven from Mayor van Gijzel. He is one of the few Eindhoven Jews who survived the concentration camp.