Elias Gompers was born in Amsterdam on 5 December 1873 as son of Levie Barend Gompers and Schoontje Jacob Boas, a family with nine children: Mietje, Barend, Sara, Elias self and Philip, who all have been killed during the Holocaust. Two children, Joseph and Marcus, have died before the war, Naatje passed away in Amsterdam in September 1940 and one son, Michel, has survived the war.
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