Rebecca Zwaab, born in 1877 was a daughter of Mozes Zwaab and Hanna Gomes de Mesquita. She married 5 July 1906 in Amsterdam Eliazer Gompers, a son of Philip Barend Gompers and Heintje Jacob Boas. After their marriage, Rebecca and her husband left for Plantage Badlaan 14, where both their children were born: Philip in June 1907 and Anna in January 1909.
Rebecca had five brothers and one sister, of whom Machiel (1875-1901) and Esther (1885-1886) had died already early; her brothers Joseph (1879-1942), Victor (1883-1942) and Hijman (1888-1942) were killed in the Shoah. Rebecca’s father Mozes Zwaab died already November 1902 and her mother Hanna Gomes de Mesquita passed away 23 May 1910 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg 25 May 1910.
After the passing of their mother, her brothers Joseph, Hijman and Victor have left their parental home 4 July 1910 and moved into a house at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 29. Victor married in 1928 and lived then with his wife at Tilanusstraat 23 and later at Andreas Bonnstraat 3 3rd floor in Amsterdam. Both her brothers Hijman and Joseph have lived in with her and her husband at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 56 2nd floor; after many removals Hijman arrived in the end at Pieter Aertszstraat 92 and Joseph came living in permanently per 17 October 1928 with Rebecca and Eliazer Gompers, after many previous removals too.
Rebecca Zwaab and her husband Eliazer Gomeprs were deported 25 March 1943 to Westerbork where they had to stay in barrack 70 after their registration. On 30 March they were put on transport to Sobibor and on arrival there 2 April 1943 the were immediately killed
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and Archive card of Eliazer Gompers, Hijman, Joseph and Victor Zwaab; website wiewaswie.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Rebecca Gompers-Zwaab and Eliazer Gompers.
This person is commemorated on the monument Schaduwkade in Amsterdam. The names of the 200 jewish inhabitants of the Nieuwe Keizersgracht are placed on the canal wall opposite the houses where they once lived.