Bloeme van der Sluis was the only child of Belnart van der Sluis and Serlina Salomons. She was born on 10 March 1924 at Muiderstraat 9 in Amsterdam and in 1931, BLoeme moved with her parents to Hunzestraat 11, 2nd floor.
At the time of the mandatory registration of all Jews in the Netherlands in 1941, Bloeme was registered as a nanny. In that capacity, the Jewish Council granted her a reprieve fro…