A grandson of Weisz found a photo of his grandfather. Based on the licence plate, he found out that the car was Franz’.
It is not Franz in the back, but perhaps Willy and Johanna. Or -of course- Franz lent out his car to other acquaintences.
The photo suggests that Weisz was Farwerck’s driver. In that case he was probably employed before Willem Viereke, so at least well before the start of World War II.
There is some information about Weisz. He has several namesakes, which doesn’t make investigation easy. One of these namesakes appears to have moved to Argentina and passed away there. This would be another Simon Weisz.
The Simon Weisz from the photo was born on in Budapest op 28 May 1889 and passed away in Amsterdam in 18 October 1980. Weisz married Elisabeth Csoma (1/1/10-?) on 21 November 1945. He had four children from a previous marriage.
According to the grandson, Weisz was a Jew and moved to the Netherlands around 1920. It appears that he first lived in Wien/Vienna and he was one of more Hungarian Jews who moved to Wien and later the Netherlands to escape national socialism.
In another source we find the following:
There are two dates next to Weisz’ name. “A’dam 13.8.1920” and “1938, 29 Aug”. That could mean that he was registered in the Netherlands in August 1920. I’m unsure about 26 August 1938.
Here the children are listed as being from Philippine de Ploeg (Amsterdam 28 December 1886) from a “free marriage”. They are all from before Weisz’ marriage to Csoma.
The first child is mentioned below “married to”, but says “daughter Betti (acknowledged 20-9-29 civil registration Amsterdam”. She is mentioned again at the bottom of the list with children.
Fani (3-5-1922 A’dam)
Debora (25-5-1923 A’dam)
Julius (11-4-1926 A’dam)
Betti (6-9-1929 A’dam)
There are some stories about the children, which do not all appear to be correct. It seems that Simon’s brother had a relationship with De Ploeg, but that Simon acknowledged the children. Some research has been done to the biological fathers of the children, but this was not done too well. This subject is more of interest to the family than to readers of this website I think.
Back to the Amsterdam file about Simon. A little to the right it appears to suggest that he came from/via Wien/Vienna. Could Stephan Schlesinger have been his link to the Netherlands? Schlesinger moved to the Netherlands in 1925. Farwerck and Kerkdijk were in Wien before 1922 to start the lodge Vertrauen. Maybe a coincidence.
Again further to the right it says that Weisz was parttime chauffeur for “only 6 weeks” and that he had an arrangement with the tax office. His employer is Farwerck! There is also a date there 1-10-37. There is another piece of paper on top of Weisz’ registration, so I can’t make out the context. Besides, there is writing in different handwriting, so not all notes are of the same person/time.
In any case, a little information of a man who seems to have been an employer for Farwerck for a short while.
(1) https://www.genealogieonline.nl/family-tree-lips-noirhomme/I509701.php (accessed 19/8/2024)
(2) https://www.joodsmonument.nl/image/2024/6/29/philippine_de_ploeg_information_en.pdf (accessed 19/8/2024)