Vrouwtje Bierman married Ezechiel Sluijs in Amsterdam on 12 July 1916. She was born on 19 June 1896 in Amsterdam as a daughter of Levie Bierman and Sara Italiaander and her husband was a son of David Sluijs and Elsje Gans; he was born 16 July 1894, in Amsterdam too and he was a diamond worker by profession.
After they were married, Ezechiel and his wife Vrouwtje lived at Weesperstraat 108 4th stock. They moved in January 1918 to Nieuweweg 41 in Watergraafsmeer – then still an independent municipality – and in May 1919 to Nieuwe Kerkstraat in Amsterdam. In 1925 they moved to the Tugelaweg; at first they lived at nr. 36 1st floor and per 18 June 1929 at nr. 39 3rd floor. Ezechiel and Vrouwtje had two children: on 1 July 1917 David was born in the Municipality of Watergraafsmeer and on 5 December 1918 their daughter Sara in Amsterdam.
From the data of the registration cards of Ezechiel Sluijs and Vrouwtje Bierman from the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, it appeared that in the first days of August 1942 they must have been "postponed from deportations until further notice”, most likely because their unmarried daughter Sara, who still lived at home held a position as secretary at the Jewish Council; they had no official “Sperre”(exemption) but Ezechiel worked also for the General Service department of the Jewish Council since 22 February 1943.
On Sunday 20 June 1943, the Germans carried out a large-scaled and secretly prepared round up, about which even the Jewish Council was not informed either. Due to the secrecy the Germans could fetch more than 5500 Jews, among them Ezechiel Sluijs and Vrouwtje Bierman, who were carried off to the Muiderpoort railway staion and from there per train to Westerbork, where they ended up in barrack 60.
On 29 June were both put on transport with another 2395 deportees, destination Sobibor. Upon arrival there on 2 July 1943, Ezechiel Sluijs and Vrouwtje Sluijs-Bierman were immediately murdered in the gas chambers there. There were no survivors of this transport.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Ezechiel Sluijs and Levie Bierman, archive cards of Ezechiel Slijs and Vrouwtje Bierman; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Ezechiel Sluijs and Vrouwtje Sluijs-Bierman and the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.