His father sent for them in 1938; he had opened a store selling cheap clothes and jewellery, mostly to sailors, and Germany was an increasingly unsafe place for Jews.
1938年，他的父親接全家團聚，懋利斯開了家小店販賣廉價的衣服和戒指，大部分是賣給海員們，當時德國對猶太人來說，越來越不是安全的居所。