Biography

About Gustave Robert Gompen

Gustave Robert (Bob) Gompen was a son of Rosalie Louisa Gompen-Keizer. He was not married.
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Gustave Robert Gompen attended the state occupational school for shoes and leather in Waalwijk from 1932 to 1933. Upon completing the programme he took a job as works manager at De Amstel chrome leather factory. His uncles Leo and Sieg Gompen, were the owners of this factory.
J. Bader, ’De geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenten Geertruidenberg, Capelle, Waalwijk en Heusden‘, in: idem, Tussen twee stromen (Breda 1997) 38;
J. Didden, ‘De laatste Joden in Waalwijk’, in: M. van Loon e.a. (red.), Geschiedenis van de joden in Waalwijk 1690-1945 (Waalwijk, 1990) 80-109

See also USC Shoah Foundation, USC-SF nr. 16674 (interview Henriëtte van den Bergh-Gompen)

See for the history of leather factory "De Amstel" of the Gompen family: S. ter Braake and P. van Trigt, Leerhandelaar, looier, lederfabrikant. Het succes van Joodse ondernemers in de Nederlandse lederindustrie (1870-1940) Menasseh ben Israel Studies III (Amsterdam 2010) 62-69.


In addition, a Jokos file (number 55552) on this household is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.