Barend Gompers was a son of Levie Barend Gompers and Schoontje Jacob Boas, a family with nine children. Mietje, Sara, Naatje Elias, Philip and Barend himself, were killed during the Shoah. Two children, Joseph and Marcus have died already before the was and one son, Michel, survived the Holocaust.
Barend married Aaltje Blitz on 5 September 1893 in Zaandam. She was born in Amsterdam on 22 July 1873…