Bernard Gompers, born 2 December 1907 in Amsterdam, was a son of Elias Gompers and Esther Wessel. He married in Amsterdam on 17 August 1932 Betje Cosman, born there on 6 November 1909 as a daughter of Mozes Cosman and Elisabeth Krieks. The couple had two children, namely Elly Elsabeth in 1934 and Max Elias and 1937. But first there was a stillborn child, that was declared dead on 12 September 1933.
Bernard started as a commercial traveller and became later an agent in tobacco. Before his marriage, he lived already on his own and had a room at Meerhuizenstraat 6 1st floor in 1929 and a room at Hemonystraat 66 1st floor in 1931 in Amsterdam. After the wedding to Betje Cosman in 1932 they moved together in a house at Waalstraat 62 2nd floor in Amsterdam-South, where Elly Elisabeth was born in 1934. In 1935 they moved to Roerstraat 26 3rd floor where Max Elias in 1937 was born.
In September 1942 Bernard Gompers and his family have made efforts to go into hiding. However, they were caught and carried off from Amsterdam to Westerbork, where Bernard ended up in the penal barrack 66. On 9 December 1942 Bernard was brought to barrack 82 but on 4 January 1943 he ended up in the hospital barrack 4 in room 7. Eventually Bernard Gompers was put on transport from Westerbork to Sobibor on 17 March 1943 and on arrival there on 20 March 1943 immediately killed in the gas chambers there.
In September 1942, his wife Betje Cosman and both his children Elly Elisabeth and Max Elias were also arrested and carried off to Westerbork, where they arrived on 12 September 1942 and already deported to Auschwitz on 14 September. On arrival there, they were immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau on 17 September 1942.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Bernard Gompers, archive cards of Bernard Gompers and Betje Cosman; certificate of death for the stillborn child, nr. 4816 of 12 Sep 1933 from Reg. 10-fol 4v; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Bernard Gompers, Betje Gompers-Cosman, Elly Elisabeth Gompers and Max Elias Gompers.