Jeannette (1875), Anna (1878) and Estella Gobes (1879), were three unmarried sisters, who lived together up from the early 1930’s in Tweede Jan van der Heijdenstraat 34 3rd floor in Amsterdam. After the passing of their parents Salomon Gobes and Grietje Content, who have died respectively in 1911 and 1913, the three sisters lived at first in with their unmarried brother Lodewijk in Plantage Middenlaan 27A. In September 1927 the Plantage Middenlaan has been re-numbered and they then lived at nr. 35 upperhouse.
Jeannette and Anna moved in on 30 October 1929 with her sister Estella, who then lived in Johannes Verhulststraat 119 in Amsterdam. Their brother Lodewijk as well their sister Emilie were officially unsubscribed from the Peoples Registery in Amsterdam already 27 May 1925; Lodewijk has left for Antwerp and Emilie for Brussels. Of Emilie nothing is further known but Lodewijk returned to Amsterdam on 27 September 1930 where he ended up at Nieuwe Heerengracht 203.
At the end of September 1930, also Jeannette Gobes and her sisters Anna and Estella moved to a new address in Tweede Jan van Heijdenstraat 34 3rd floor, where they have lived till the moment they were arrested and taken Westerbork from their residence during the persecution of the Jews.
Jeannette Gobes arrived 6 March 1943 in Westerbork and ended up in hospital barrack 83. She stayed there till she was put on transport on 17 March to Sobibor, where on arrival there on 20 March 1943 she immediately has been killed.
Anna Gobes arrived at the same time as her sister Jeannette in Westerbork. However, she was accommodated in barack 63, till four days later, she was deported 10 March to Sobibor. On arrival there on 13 March 1943, she was immediately killed.
The youngest of the three sisters, Estella, was already 16 February 1943 taken to Westerbork and accommodated in barrack 69. On 23 February she was put on transport to Auschwitz where on arrival on 26 February 1943, she was immediately killed in gas chambers of Auschwitz.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Estella Gobes and Lodewijk Gobes; overgenomen delen (copied volumes) 1892-1920 of Salomon Gobes; archive cards of Jeannette Gobes, Anna Gobes and Estella Gobes and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cardxs of Jeannette Gobes, Anna Gobes and Estella Gobes.