Samuel Boas was a son of Levie Boas and Clara Rabbi. He married 13 August 1931 in Amsterdam Clarisse Beer, the daughter of Herman Nathan Beer and Rebecca Cohen. On 26 February 1934 Samuel and Clarissa had two sons, the twins Herman and Louis.
Samuel Boas was a cap maker by profession. In later years, he became a sales representave in hats, caps and ties. After the marriage between Samuel and Clarisse has been concluded, they moved into a house at the 2nd level of house 93 in the Molukkenstraat in Amsterdam-East. There they resided till 20 April 1939, the date where the family moved to Hilversum and found there a house at the Polluxstraat 1.
On 30 July 1940, the Boas family moved in Hilversum to the Prins Bernhardstraat 25, where also in January 1941 Clarisse’s mother Rebecca Cohen came to live in after the death of her husband Herman Nathan Beer. On 31 July 1941 the family moved still to te Tunnelstraat 25, but on 15 April 1943 all family members had to move back to Amsterdam, where they ended up at Vrolikstraat 311 3rd floor.
Before the war, Samuel had already worked for 10 years as a manager in work place for hats and men's fashion items. He was also a representative in this industry. His education consisted of 3 years of MULO with English and German, he was a stenographer, had his driver's license and could interact easily with the public.
The information recorded when Samuel Boas was registered with the Jewish Council shows that he was given a position as technical manager of the cap factory on 23 September 1942 and was therefore exempted from deportation untill further notice by the Jewish Council ("gesperrt bis auf weiteres"), which also meant that his wife Clarisse and sons Herman and Louis were temporarily exempted from deportation too. He received an I.D. from the Jewish Council with number B-1084.
But on 7 August 1943, the entire Boas family was yet arrested and taken to the Vught concentration camp, where Samuel was put to work as a sewing machine repairman. However, on 12 September 1943, Samuel, Clarisse and the twins Herman and Louis were sent to Westerbork where they ended up in barrack 62, after which they were all deported to Auschwitz in a transport of 1005 victims in total on 14 September 1943.
Upon arrival on 16/17 September 1943, Clarisse Boas-Beer and both her children Herman and Louis were immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. On the otherhand, Samuel has been selected for work after the arrival in Auschwitz and received prisoner number 150614. Up from 20 September Samuel was noted in the book of camp hosiptal for prisoners – Buna (KL Auschwitz III-Monowitz). On 7 December 1943 he was noted in the files of the SS-Hygiene Institut. On 2 January 1944, Samuel Boas died in Auschwitz.
After the war, his precise place and date of death was unknown, and the Dutch Ministry of Justice commissioned the Municipality of Amsterdam, partly based on the investigations of the Red Cross, to draw up a certificate of death for Samuel Boas, in which is recorded that he has died in the vicinity of Auschwitz on 2 January 1944.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Samuel Boas, archive cards of Samuel Boas and Clarisse Beer; Amsterdam residence cards/Molukkenstraat 93 and Vrolikstraat 311; the file cabinet of the Jewisch Council, registration cards of Samuel Boas, Clarisse Boas-Beer and Herman and Louis Boas; website ITS Arolson/kampkaarten of Samuel Boas and of Herman and Louis Boas; the archives of the Red Cross, publication “Auschwitz IV”, edited October 1953/autumn transports 1943/transport of 14 September 1943; website Jodentransporten uit Nederland.nl; confirming information from the Auschwitz Museum about Samuel Boas and the certificates of death no. 360 from the A-register A63-folio 61verso of 10 August 1951 for Clarisse Boas-Beer and no. 59 from the A-register 90-folio 11verso of 6 December 1951 for Samuel Boas.