Levie Gompers was the youngest of the two sons of Philip Gompers and Rebecca de Haan. The eldest son was Joseph Gompers, born 22 March 1899 and Levie, the youngest was born in Amsterdam on 18 July 1900. Levie married on 20 December 1923 the 24-year old Sophie Nerden, a daughter of Louis Nerden and Mirjam Baars. The couple Gompers-Nerden had two children, Max Philip in May 1926 and in December 1927, Louise Rebecca. The entire family was killed in the Shoah.
Levie Gompers started as wholesaler in leather goods. He was in the same trade as his father, who was director of the leather goods factory Gompers & Co. In later years, also Levie became a member of the direction. Levie lived at Bredeweg 44 parterre in Amsterdam-East but moved in December 1923 with his bride to Nieuwe Herengracht 23 parterre and on 16 December 1930, they moved into a house at Hunzestraat 45 3rd and 4th stock in Amsterdam-South.
After the mandatory registration of all Jews in the Netherlands in 1941, Levie decided to escape deportation by fleeing to Switzerland with his family. From a letter of 7 January 1946 to the Dutch Red Cross from his uncle Simon Loonstein, (a brother of Levie’s sister-in-law Marianne Loonstein), it appeared that Levie with his wife Sophie and his children Max Philip and Louise Rebecca arrived near the Swiss border in France, but that they have been caught there and arrested and via the Belfort prison were transferred to Paris, where they ended up in the transit camp of Drancy. On 31 August 1943, the Gompers family was deported to Auschwitz with convoy 26 and on arrival there on 2 September immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Levie Gompers, archive cards of Levie Gompers and Sophie Nerden; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Levie Gompers, Sophie Gompers-Nerden, Max Philip Gompers and Louise Rebecca Gompes; website Memorial de la Shoah and additions of visitors of the website.