Barbara Moses

She was born in Breslau, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland. She remembered Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and survived the Kristallnacht. Because her family could not get into the United States, they fled to the Philippines and survived the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Her mother died unexpectedly after the liberation of the Philippines, by the United States, when she was only seventeen years old. Barbara then immigrated to New York City, where she met Harry E. Moses and started their family. She then moved to Brookline in 1961 and lived there ever since.

Despite an education broken up by the events of the Second World War, she graduated at the top of her class from Dalton High School, received her Bachelors from Barnard College with honors and her Masters from Smith College. She had a very loving marriage with Harry E. Moses who passed away in 2012. She worked for nearly forty years as a social worker placing children for adoption and working with foster families, a job which she loved. Her hobby and passion was playing classical European piano and she was told she could have been a professional piano player.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in her memory to The Home for Little Wanderers, via www.thehome.org or 10 Guest Street, Boston, MA 02135.

Services were held privately.