Clara Blom, usually named Claartje, was born 31 August 1870 as the third child of Nathan Blom and Betje Sluis. Her parents married in Amsterdam on 19 June 1861 and had five other children, namely Mietje, Vogeltje, Israël, Rebecca and Philip. Clara’s father worked as a labourer and died at the age of 66 in 1905 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery of Zeeburg in Amsterdam. Her mother died in 1923…