Samuel Gompers was a son of Abraham Samuel Gompers and Wilhelmina Consenheim. He was the fifth of the seven children of the family and wa born 6 June 1896 in Amsterdam. His sisters Theresia and Jansje, as well their father and he himself were killed during the Shoah. His mother died already in 1928; one sister survived the Holocaust, two sister passed already before the war and one sister died in …