Max Gompertz

Max Gompertz was the youngest son of Herman Gompertz and Betje Stibbe. He was born 28 January 1919 in Amsterdam and he worked as warehouse clerk, ánd not yet married.

Just as his brother Freddy, Max has tried to escape deportation by fleeing from the Netherlands. In Belgium, he ended up in Mechelen. The Municipality of Amsterdam has therefore unsubscribed him from the Peoples Registry to Mechelen …

Herman Gompertz was a son from the 2^nd marriage of his fathet Bernard Elias Gompertz from Rheinberg Germany and Bertha de Beer from Leeuwarden. Bernard’s first wife Sara Schoolmeester, born in Haarlem, died 14 July 1878. She had one son, Edmond, who was born in 1877. From his 2^nd marriage, Herman’s father had eight more children, of whom the last one was a stillborn daughter. Four other children h…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 51843) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 4188/18763).

A Liro card exists for this person or family. The original cards…

Max Gompertz was deported from Mechelen on 19 April 1943 with convoy number 20. The convoy was raided by the Belgian resistance and some Jews managed to escape.
M. Schreiber, Stille Rebellen: de overval op deportatietrein nr. 20 naar Auschwitz (Amsterdam 2001)

At the time of departure from Mechelen, this transport consisted of 1631 people, including 262 children. One of them is the youngest child deported from Belgium, nr. 215 on the list, a girl on 11 March 1943, barely 39 days before her departure for death.

The 20^th convoy, which is very typical, also carried away one of the oldest deportees, nr. 594 on the list, born 7 August 1852. He would have bee…