Abraham Bloemendal was the youngest of the eight children of Joseph Bloemendal (Smilde 1844 - Amsterdam 1925) and Henriëtte Polak (Smilde 1846 - Amsterdam 1918). He married Henriette Rosa Gersons, a daughter of the Tilburg butcher Hartog Gersons and Catharina Jacoba Salomon, on 28 May 1923 in Tilburg. She was born there on 4 June 1896.
Abraham Bloemendal, together with his brothers Maurits and Emanuel, lived in the basement of Isaak Wijnberg's house at Plantage Franschelaan 32 in Amsterdam, (renamed Henri Polaklaan since November 1945), but after the marriage of Abraham and Henriette Rosa, the Bloemendal couple moved into a house at Ruyschstraat 21 upper house in Amsterdam-East on 9 June 1923. Their daughter Josephine was born there on 9 April 1927.
Shortly afterwards, in August 1927, the family moved to Karel du Jardinstraat and from July 1930 they lived in Burmanstraat, near Wibautstraat in Amsterdam-East at number 30 and from 1937 at number 11. Abraham earned his living as a traveling salesman, but later, he ran a wholesale paper business.
After being arrested, Abraham Bloemendal and his wife and daughter were carried off to Westerbork on 11 May 1943, where they ended up in barrack 61. That same day, mediation was already done for Abraham Bloemendal, which amounted to a request for a postponement of deportation. A report from the Amsterdam contractor and bricklayer Hendrik Adriaan Koekkoek from Blasiusstraat 4, which was sent with the aforementioned request, would show that Abraham Bloemendal worked for Koekkoek as a carpenter.
The answer came on 14 May and read: "nothing can be achieved on the grounds in exposé, here letter to A. Bloemendal” which meant that Abraham and his family now only faced deportation. This followed on 18 May to Sobibor, where upon arrival several dozen people were selected for work in Sobibor and the Lublin district. Life signs were received from sixteen people from Sobibor, three from Dorohucza and one from Silesia. However, none of this transport survived the war.
After the war it was established that Abraham Bloemendal, his wife Henriette Rosa Gersons and daughter Josephine Bloemendal were murdered in the gas chambers on 21 June 1943 after arriving in Sobibor.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Abraham Bloemendal and Joseph Bloemendal; death certificate for Joseph Bloemendal/ 4103 dated 5 Aug 1925; website stenenarchief.nl/record 31206 for Henriëtte Bloemendal-Polak; Amsterdam archive cards of Abraham Bloemendal, Henriette Rosa Gersons and Josephine Bloemendal; Amsterdam residence cards/ Swammerdamstraat 11 and Plantage Franschelaan 32 (Henri Polaklaan); website Drents Archive 2001.27/peoples registration Smilde/s Smilde/Abraham Bloemendal (and his family familie); the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Bloemendal, Henriëtte Rosa Bloemendal-Gersons and Josephine Bloemendal; “Extermination Camp Sobibor, 2nd ecdition 1994 by Jules Schelvis/ transport list 18 May 1943 page 407-423 and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl/transport 18 May 1943 - 2511 people.