Jeannette Gobes was the twinsister of Judith Gobes, born on 9 January 1924 as daughter of Mozes Gobes and Clara Kapper. Jeannette lived at home in the Blasiusstraat 130 ground floor. Contrary to her sister Judith, she was unmarried. She was employed as seamstress, dress-maker and packer of surrogates.
Her father Mozes Gobes runned a barbershop in the Blasiusstraat 130. He was in possession of a special exemption “Joodsch Lokaal” (Jewish Business). As part of the anti-Jewish measures implemented by the Germans, the Jewish population not yet deported, could (mandatory) go to the special Jewish shops, which were designated as a Jewish Business (Joodsch Lokaal). Due to this exemption of her father, the entire Gobes family, including Jeannette, was exempted from deportation for the time being.
At the other hand, Jeannette possessed also a “Sperre” of her own as “Seamstress Wehrmacht”. She belonged to the group of “Rüstungsjuden” (Jews working for the German war industry). She received a Sperre number in the 60.000 series, no. 61950. However, on 14 May 1943, Rauter forbade all Jews to stay in Amsterdam after 21 May without permission. Only those with a certificate of deferment, a “Sperre”, were allowed to stay longer.
Despite Jeannette Gobes possessed such a certificate of deferment, she still was arrested during the round-up of 20 May 1943 and carried off to Westerbork. There she ended up in barrack 55 and on 25 May put on transport to Sobibor. Upon arrival there on 28 May 1943, together with more than 2850 other deportees, she was immediately murdered in the gas chambers there.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Mozes Gobes, archive cards of Mozes Gobes and Jeannette Gobes; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Jeannette Gobes; website Het Geheugen van Oost (the memory of East)/round-up 20 May 1943 and the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.