Biography

About Eliazer Bosboom

Eliazer Bosboom was a son of Andries Bosboom and Reina van de Kar, a family of in total nine children and of whom six children did not survive the Holocaust, his siblings Salomon, Marianna, Anna, Hartog, and Grietje.
Eliazer married 22 August 1906 in Amsterdam to Marianne Flesschedrager, a daughter of Barend Flesschedrager and Kaatje Waterman. The couple had twelve children, of whom three children have died in childhood. The other nine children - all married of whom six lived at their own home and three lived at the address of their parents.
Three children have survived the war. One was saved because of a mixed marriage, another went into hiding, the third returned from Auschwitz.
Their children Kaatje, Barend, Andries, Anna, Margaretha and Abraham however did not survive the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Eliazer Bosboom, website www.wiewaswie.nl and an addition of a visitor of the website.

This person is commemorated on a memorial in Amsterdam. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.