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Max Moszkowicz Sr. (born 5 October 1926) is a retired Dutch lawyer.
Biography
Max Moszkowicz was born on 5 October 1926 in Essen in the Weimar Republic.
The Jewish Moszkowicz family fled Nazi Germany in 1933. During the Holocaust his parents were murdered. Max Moszkowicz himself survived Auschwitz.
Moszkowicz became well known in the Netherlands for defending the godfather of the Amsterdam underworld Klaas Bruinsma and the Heineken kidnappers Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder.
He is the father of (former) lawyers David Moszkowicz (born 1950), Robert Moszkowicz (born 1953), Max Moszkowicz Jr (born 1955), and Bram Moszkowicz (born 1960). David, Robert, and Bram were disbarred in 2016, 2006, and 2013.
He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).