Mathilda Bosboom was the unmarried daughtger of Jesaia Bosboom and Leah Spijer. She lived at home with her parents at Transvaalkade 54 down floor, her last known address before she was deported to Sobibor. Her younger brother Maurits has survived the Shoah, together with his wife.
According to entries on her registration card of the Jewish Council, Mathilda had an education at the 3-year HBS (Highschool) and finished the school for social work and became a psychiatric nurse, for which she obtained separately a certificate in Sweden too.
10 July 1943 she was registered at the Jewish Council and gained a position as a vegetable distributor at the headquarters of the Jewish Council at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 58. From April 1943 she was a social worker at the office of social pedagocial care.
Because of her position at the Jewish Council, she was “exempted from deportation until further notice” (gesperrt bis auf weiteres). However during the big and unexpected raid on 20 June 1943 Mathilda Bosboom was also taken away via Muiderpoort station to Camp Westerbork. She stayed in barack 71 until she was deported to Sobibor on 6 July. Upon arrival there on 9 July 1943, she was killed immediately.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Jesaia Bosboom and Mathilda Bosboom and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Mathilda Bosboom.