Emanuel Moresco

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Emanuel Moresco

Emanuel Moresco (born October 26, 1869 in Amsterdam , † June 24, 1945 in Eindhoven ) was a Dutch diplomat, colonial politician and professor. He was a survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Moresco took classes in civil and commercial law after graduating from high school to prepare for the consular service exam, which he passed in 1888. He then worked at a bank in Rotterdam and at the Department of Marine in The Hague, among others . He attended lectures at the Indian Institute in Delft and passed the examination for entry into the Dutch-Indian administrative service. He then worked for the General Secretariat of the Dutch-Indian government in Java until 1910 . From 1910 to 1913 he taught at the Dutch-Indian Administration Academy in The Hague. Moresco, who published in the field of colonial science, was given the title Dr. hc awarded by the University of Leiden . During the First World War , Moresco was director of the Department of Education and Culture in India from 1914 to 1917. In the spring of 1917 he was Secretary General of the Colonial Office in The Hague and held this post until 1921. From November 1921 to February 1922 he was a member of the Dutch delegation at the Naval Conference of Washington to which had the disarmament of the fleets to object to a balance in the Pacific region to create. From 1922 to 1923 Moresco was Vice President of the Council for the Dutch East Indies , Vice Governor General and President of the Dutch-Indian Red Cross . On November 9, 1923, he was honorably discharged from service. He was appointed associate professor for colonial policy at the Rotterdam School of Economics in 1924, where he worked until 1929. After that he was representative of the Dutch government for colonial affairs at the League of Nations until 1934 . Even after that, Moresco was still active in colonial studies until the late 1930s, chairing committees, giving lectures and organizing conferences.

After the occupation of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War , Moresco and his family were transferred to the Westerbork transit camp via another camp on September 29, 1943 because of his Jewish origins . From there he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he arrived on September 6, 1944. Moresco was known in Theresienstadt as a so-called “prominent prisoner”. On May 8, 1945, Moresco in Theresienstadt was liberated by the Red Army . He returned to the Netherlands and died of heart failure three days after arriving in Eindhoven in the hospital.

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SURNAME Moresco, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch diplomat and colonial politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1945
Place of death Eindhoven