Sara Gompers was a daughter of Philip Barend Gompers and Heintje Jacob Boas. Seven children of this couple have been killed during the Holocaust: Sara self, but also her siblings Mietje, Esther, Eliazer, Hartog, Levie and Clara. Sara was unmarried and lived toghether with her also unmarried sisters Esther and Clara at Nieuwe Achtergracht 111 in Amsterdam. She was the eldest of the three sisters.
According to her registration card of the Jewish Council, Sara was registered in Westerbork on 16 September 1942 and already two days later, on 18 September, deported to Auschwitz. She was already 73 years of age. Depart from Westerbork on 18 September 1942 appears also at the transport lists, made out in Westerbork in 1942, findable in the Red Cross archives, where Sara Gompers is listed as “born 13 Jun 69 (wrongly listed as 99), residing at Amsterdam, Nwe. Achtergracht 111” and deported on 18 September 1943. This transport with 1004 deportees has arrived in Auschwitz on 20 September 1942. Therefore, most likely, she would have been immediately killed after arrival there on 21 September 1942.
However, her certificate of death nr. 548 of 30 September 1948 shows that she would have been killed in Sobibor on 28 May 1942, but Sobibor did not excist then at that time in 1942. Sara Gompers seems to be mistaken for her cousin Sara Mesritz-Gompers, the daughter of a brother of her father Philip Barend Gompers, Levie Barend Gompers. She was born also in 1869 but on 18 February of that year. Her registration card of the Jewish Council shows a date of deportation of 25 May 1943, before which she has been arrested in Amsterdam and carried off to Westerbork on 20 May 1943. These dates agree rather well with her date of death of 28 May 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Sara Gompers; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Sara Gompers and Sara Mesritz-Gompers; the archives of the Red Cross, transport lists” inventaris/vertrek uit westerbork/deportatie uit Westerbork/ gealfabetiseerde registers/434-1590/pagina 80:; Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl; death certificate of Sara Gompers, Year 1948, register 7, folio 92verso, certificate nr. 548 dated 30 September 1948 based on a verdict of the District Court of Amsterdm and an addition of a visitor of the website.