Max Moszkowicz Sr. (5 October 1926 – 27 January 2022) was a Dutch lawyer.

Biography

Moszkowicz was born on 5 October 1926 in Essen,

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. The Jewish Moszkowicz family fled

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in 1933. During

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his parents were murdered. Max Moszkowicz himself survived Auschwitz. He became well known in the Netherlands for defending the godfather of the Amsterdam underworld Klaas Bruinsma and the

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kidnappers Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder. Moszkowicz was a member of the

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(VVD). Moszkowicz was the father of former lawyers David Moszkowicz (born 1950), Robert Moszkowicz (born 1953), Max Moszkowicz Jr. (born 1955), and

Bram Moszkowicz Abraham Maarten 'Bram' Moszkowicz (; born 26 June 1960) is a Dutch jurist and former lawyer. Early life and education Abraham Maarten Moszkowicz was born on 26 June 1960 in Maastricht in the Netherlands. He is the son of Berthe Bessant and l ...

(born 1960). David, Robert, and Bram were disbarred in 2016, 2006, and 2013. He died on 27 January 2022, at the age of 95.

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1926 births 2022 deaths Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Mauthausen concentration camp survivors Members of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy Dutch Ashkenazi Jews Dutch columnists Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands Dutch legal writers Dutch people of World War II Dutch people of German-Jewish descent People from Maastricht 20th-century Dutch lawyers 20th-century Dutch jurists 20th-century Dutch male writers 21st-century Dutch lawyers 21st-century Dutch jurists 21st-century Dutch male writers {{Netherlands-law-bio-stub