Eliazer Turksma, son of Marcus Turksma and Elisabeth Polak, was the widower of Betje Vomberg, to whom he was married in Deventer on 29 June 1898. Betje Vomberg died in Deventer on 23 September 1938. He had seven children. His sons Marcus and Eliazer perished during the war.
On 14 October 1942 Eliazer Turksma remarried the widow of Arie Citroen, Anna Trompetter.
For a biographical note see: H.E. Dominicus, Mauthausen. Een gedenkboek (2e herziene en uitgebreide druk; Amsterdam 1999) 160.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Eliazer Turksma.