Aäron Gobets was a son of Machiel Gobets and Elizabeth Bak. He married 9 February 1910 in Amsterdam Sientje Leijden van Amstel, who was born in 1889 as daughter of Meijer Leijden van Amstel and Femmetje Abas. The couple had six children, namely Elisabeth (22-3-1911 – died in 1980), Machiel (31-5-1913 - died in 1992), Meijer (7-5-1917), Femmetje (12-9-1918 – nothing further known of her), Nathan (14-1-1920) and Marcus (3-9-1922). Of their children Meijer, Nathan and Marcus were killed in Auschwitz. The marriage of Aäron and Sientje ended however by a divorce on 18 April 1930.
Aäron Gobets then remarried 1 October 1930 the 28-year old Theresia Gotlieb from Grave, a daughter of Isaac Gotlieb and Roosje Hildesheim. Theresia was previously married, on 29 April 1925 in Amsterdam, to Mozes Lopes Cardozo, with whom she had a son on 30 July in that year named Johan Lopes Cardozo. She already had also two previously born children, namely Rosette, on 19 September 1925 and Meijer who was born 14 August 1928. But after four years of marriage, Theresia Gotlieb and Mozes Lopes Cardozo divorced on 15 April 1929 in Amsterdam.
After Mozes was divorced, he went living in with his mother Rosette Barend; his father Abraham Lopes Cardozo was already divorced from Rosette Barend in July 1907 and Rosette remarried in 1911 Jacob Pachter. Mozes’ sister Elisabeth lived also still at home with her mother Rosette Barend and her stepfather Jacob Pachter. But a few months later, in October 1927, she married Levie Schrijver, a son of David Schrijver and Betje Walvis and she left with her new husband to an own address.
Rosette Lopes Cardozo, who was born in 1925 as daughter of Mozes Lopes Cardozo and Theresia Gotlieb, was adopted as stepdaughter in the Jacob Pachter family. She lived there till she was taken to Westerbork and deported to Auschwitz on 7 August 1942. In the end Dutch authorities have decided after the war by letting drawn up a certificate of death for Rosette Lopes Cardozo, that she has died in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
Johan Lopes Cardoz came living in as stepson in the family of Aäron Gobets, who had with his wife Theresia Gotlieb two other daughters: in 1933 Sara was born and in 1935 came Anna. The family then lived at Korte Houtstraat 38 3rd floor in Amsterdam. Johan was registered in Westerbork on 18 May 1943 and actually that same day deported to Sobibor, where on arrival there on 21 May 1943, he got directly killed.
Meijer Lopes Cardozo ended up with Levie Brilleman and his wife Leentje Brilleman-Kopee in the Foeliestraat 8 2nd floor. He stayed there until he was taken together with Levie Brilleman to Westerbork and on 21 September 1942 deported to Auschwitz. On arrival there both were immediately murdered on 24 September 1942. (In the municipal administration, Meijer was known and registered as Meijer Brilleman Lopes Cardozo). Levie’s wife Leentje Kopee passed away already a few months earlier in Amsterdam.
Thersia Gobets-Gotlieb and her daughters Sara and Anna were registered in Westerbork 5 Februaray 1943. They stayed shortly in barrack 36 and then had to move to barrack 72. From notes on Theresia’s registration card it became clear that her husband Aäron Gobets and her son Johan Lopes Cardozo were still at home in Amsterdam. On 1 May 1943 she has sent him the message that she and both her daughters should depart from Westerbork 4 May. “If you come along, then you should report in Westerbork 3 May”. That did not happen. Theresia Gotlieb and her daughters Sara and Anna were deported 4 May to Sobibor and on arrival there on 7 May 1943 immediately killed.
Two weeks later, on 18 May 1943 Aäron Gobets and his stepson Johan Lopes Cardozo were taken to Westerbork and even that same day deported to Sobibor. On arrival there 21 May 1943 they were both immediately killed.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Aäron Gobets, Theresia Gotlieb, Johan Lopes Cardozo; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Theresia Gobets-Gotlieb, Sara and Anni (Anna) Gobets and Johan Lopes Cardozo. Of Aäron Gobets, no registration card was found in the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, however the transport list of 18 May 1943 as in the book “Extermination Camp Sobibor”by Jules Schelvis, shows Aäron Gobets’ name in it.