{geni:about_me} Birthdate is found in ''Geburtstags Merkbuch / Birthday Book'' of Ernestine Reif Schlesinger, in possession of Janet Lindner, ERS's great-grandaughter. Entry by Ernestine Reif Schlesinger, as ''Mori'''t'''z, Jan.25, 1860/Mittwoch''.

Birthdate also found in [http://www.avotaynu.com/holocaustlist/r2.htm Avotaynu] records of Austrians having bank accounts at the time of the Holocaust. It also appears on the birth announcement of son Paul Reif, as "Moses (rechteMoriz) Reif."

Birth record -- for ''Moses Singer'' (his parents were not yet married, as his father was not an oldest son) -- appears in ''Czech Jewish Registers'', UHERSKÝ OSTROH (Ungarische Ostra, o. Uherské Hradiště), N (births) 1849 - 1875;1876-1879, 1880-1881(i), [http://badatelna.eu/reprodukce/?fondId=241&zaz...&reproId=3885917 January 25, 1860], Image #38 of 150. An entry at the far right of the page, which is repeated on the birth record of Moses Singer's sister, Ernestine Reif ([http://badatelna.eu/reprodukce/?fondId=241&zaz...&reproId=3885937 Nov. 19, 1865]) states that parents, Samuel Reif & Betti/Babetti Singer, were married May 10 (or 16), 1860.

Moriz married April 19, 1891 in Wien (Stadttempel): Reif, Moriz & Strakosch, Bertha, per genteam.at ''Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna'' (Num. [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-2579...c=MMGD-2MP:768582894 '''648''']), after a 2-year engagement. Their engagement photograph was made by the "premier society photographer of Vienna," [http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/p...amp;app_id=2733& Fritz Luckhardt].

* Reif, Moriz (of Wien II, Obere Donaustrasse 47) & Strakosch, Bertha
Witnesses were Bernhard Strakosch and Samuel Reif; their names do not appear as ''original'' signatures.

At the time of their first child's birth in 1892 (Hedwig), Moriz and Bertha lived in Wien I, [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Deutschmeisterplatz...ria&t=m&z=16 Deutschmeisterplatz 4], built 1875 by architect [http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/1194.htm Rudolf Neumayr]. This was just across the Donaukanal from where Moriz's father [http://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Reif/6000000002765714960 '''Samuel Reif'''] lived.*

At the time of Moriz and Bertha's two later childrens' births in 1894 (Gertrude) and 1897 (Paul), the family lived at Wien I, [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Schottenring+17,+In...ria&t=m&z=17 Schottenring 17]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schottenring.JPG Schottenring] was a section of Vienna's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringstra%C3%9Fe Ringstraße], a road encircling the Innere Stadt district of Vienna, ordered by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1857 to replace the ancient city walls with a promenade showcasing the grandeur and glory of the Habsburg Empire. The building at #17 -- [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palais_L%C3%A9on-Schottenring_17.JPG Palais Léon] -- had been built for industrialist Julian Léon in 1870 by [http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/1417.htm Theodor Neumayer] with Heinrich Ferstel.

While Moriz lived at Schottenring 17, two cousins, siblings Hermann Reif and Martha Reif, lived in Wien I., Schottenring 19. [http://www.geni.com/people/Hermann-Reif/6000000008781382047 '''Hermann Reif'''] was Malzfabrikant, (1901; [http://books.google.com/books?id=CapRAAAAMAAJ&...2Reif%22&f=false Jahresbericht des Wissenschaftlichen Klub] / Annual Report of the Scientific Club, Vols. 24-39, Vienna). Martha Reif married Max Pollak in 1906.

By 1906, and until 1938, Moriz and Bertha Reif lived in Wien III (Landstrasser), [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Veithgasse+11,+Vien...ria&t=m&z=15 Veithgasse 11], across from the grounds of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvedere,_Vienna Belvedere Palace] and gardens (Belvedere was the home from 1896 of Prince Franz Ferdinand, assassinated at Sarajevo in 1918). The apartment building at [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veithgasse11.jpg Veithgasse 11] had been built in 1876-77 by [http://eng.archinform.net/projekte/28900.htm k.u.k. Oberbaurat AndreasStreit (architect)]. ([http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/634.htm Streit] (15 Jul 1840-20 Jan 1916), who founded the Association of Architects "Wiener Bauhütte", was one of the authoritative architects of late Viennese historicism. His magnificent palaces and apartment buildings made use of the formal language of the neo-Renaissance or neo-Baroque. Very often they were also distinguished by rich sculptural decorations and elaborate staircases. With the advent of early modernism at the beginning of the 20th century, Streit's influence waned.)

Moriz Reif was a successful dealer in grain, especially pearl barley [''gersten'']. In 1907 he was "k. k. Kommerzialrat, Gersten-Exporteur, Borsenrat an der Börse für landwirtschaftliche Produkte" and [http://books.google.com/books?id=CtU9AAAAYAAJ&...2Reif%22&f=false 'advisor'] to the Agricultural Commodity Exchange in Vienna. He had ''Gerstereif Wien'' as hispersonal telegraph address. In a book called [http://books.google.com/books?id=m2ckAQAAIAAJ&...&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ ''Der Alpinismus: Kultur, Organisation, Politik''] (WUV-Universitätsverlag, 1996) he is referred to as "Reif, Moriz, Kaufmann [Sam. & Jac. Reif], [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Grosse+Mohrengasse,...ria&t=h&z=18 Wien II, Große Mohrengasse]" (the firm's business address; across from the Commodities Exchange at 10 Taborstrasse).

Mentioned in ''American Brewers' Review'', Vol. 21 (1907), pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=vVo5AQAAMAAJ&...arley%22&f=false 375-78], named to an international commission to try and settle the complex question of how to valuate barley. The same debate is reflected (in German) in ''Zeitschrift für das gesammte Brauwesen'', Volume 30 (1907), pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=u9JOAAAAYAAJ&...erste%22&f=false 337], with Moriz Reif advocating for objective standards & methods for grading barley.

Mentioned in ''Die Stimme'', a Zionist newspaper Nov. 22, 1928, p. 2, for opposing views: http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2008/38044/original/Stimme_047.pdf

About the Reifs' apartment at Veithgasse 11, their granddaughter Lisbeth Kanitz has written:

"It was a large place with very heavy wood furniture. Their bedrooms were beautifully furnished with big four-posters, chests of drawers and comfortable upholstered chairs. I recall a big dining room with a big table, beautifully carved, dark wood. There was an adjoining one with a sofa, I believe, some chairs and two cherry wood Bösendorfer grand pianos on which Bertha and Gerty [Bertha's daughter] played duets now and then. And Bertha played quite a bit on her own, especially for me when I was there, as I loved piano music. The kitchen was fairly large with lots of cabinet space. Frau Anna, the superb cook with whom Moriz spoke Czech, reigned there for years. There might havebeen a pantry next to it. I recall numerous armoires, as closets did not exist. And many works of art on the walls. I think there were two bathrooms; one for the servants and one with tub for Moriz and Bertha. I went to the apartment a couple of days after Hitler troops took over in 1938, but that visit is a total blank in my memory. I just know I went there by myself on foot, very slowly and deliberately as instructed. Running was for the fearful andnot recommended." One passed through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtpark,_Vienna Stadtpark] to reach the grandparents' apartment in Veithgasse.

Sometime in or after June 1938, Moriz & Bertha were evacuated, by their son Paul, to Holland. He had also arranged and paid for the evacuation to Holland and N.Y., and household move, of his sister [http://www.geni.com/people/Gertrude-Kanitz/6000000012078521891 '''Gertude Reif Kanitz'''] and her family, who left Vienna in June 1938. Once in Holland, Moriz and Bertha would or could not go on further (to the U.S.), and it's doubtful that he could have gotten them visas in any case, since America's quota for ''Czechs'' was full.

Bertha and Moriz remained living in a farmhouse near the North Holland village of Bergen, by the sea and dunes and the Bergen woods. They were eventually betrayed, deported, and died at [http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-locate-gas-chambers-poland-142603217.html '''Sobibor'''] camp in Poland; see the Dutch [http://www.communityjoodsmonument.nl/search/93?q_a...&q_decease_city= Community Joods Monument] online.

* Reif, Moriz ''Israel.'' 25-1-1860 Ostra, 9-4-1943 Sobibor.
* Reif-Strakosch, Bertha ''Sara''. 25-5-1870 Brünn, 9-4-1943 Sobibor.

Per their granddaughter, Lisbeth Kanitz Canfield, "''Israel'' and ''Sara'' were names assigned to Jewish citizens by the Nazis. Ordinary Austrians, Czechs, Germans, etc. did not generally have middle names, with the exception ofRoman Catholics here and there" (email, Feb. 2007).

Moriz and Bertha's address at time of deportation was: ''Breelaan 47, Bergen'' (NH) per Digital Monument website listed above. It says "the addresses are those entered in 1941 and 1942 on the forms used to compile the [Nazi] register lists. The address used closest to 1 February 1941 was designated as the primary address" by those creating the online monument. See http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupa...d/netherdeports.html

Yad Vashem entry is at http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=4285103&language=en

* In 1938 a Nathan Isak Strakosch, b. 21 Nov 1858 in Wessely, Mähren, lived at Deutschmeisterplatz 4 with wife Rebekka ___ (born Regina, 22 Sept 1855 in Rakonitz, W of Prague--a brewery town). They were deported June 20, 1942 and[http://www.holocaust.cz/en/victims/PERSON.ITI.1000650 Rebekka] died at Theresienstadt on Aug. 30, 1942. [http://www.holocaust.cz/de/victims/PERSON.ITI.1000637 Nathan]'s death date is not known.