Nathan Levie Boas from Rotterdam, was a son of Simon Boas, born in Rotterdam, and Mietje Katan, born in Maassluis. He married 19 June 1930 in Rotterdam Mietje Fierlier, a daughter of Barend Fierlier and Aaltje Swaab. On 20 March 1931 their daughter Mary Alice was born. However, the marriage did not last; on 6 May 1933 the marriage ended in a divorce. Nathan's daughter stayed with her mother, who remarried a non-Jewish man and both mother and daughter have survived the war.
Nathan remarried too; on 2 December 1936 he married in Delft Gertrud Käthe Levy from Hildesheim (Germany) but also this marriage ended in a divorce, by verdict of the District Court in Den Haag from 30 January 1940 and registered in the Civil Registry of Delft on 16 May 1940, Since then Nathan and Gertrud resided at different addresses in Den Haag.
Nathan Levie Boas was deported from transit camp Westerbork to Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 where he lost his life on 30 September 1942. His ex-spouse was sent to Auschwitz on 10 November 1942 and she has been killed immediately upon arrival in Auschwitz on 13 November 1942.
City Archive of Rotterdam, index birth of Nathan Levie Boas, family registration card of Mietje Fierlier (and Cornelis de Vrijer); Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Nathan Levie Boa; Civil Registry of Delft, certificates of marriage dated 2 December 1936 and of divorce nr. 171 dated 16 May 1940 of Gertrud Käthe Levy and Nathan Levy Boas; website www.wiewaswie.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, records of Nathan Levie Boas and Gertrud (Boas)-Levy.