Sara Maas was a daughter of Philip Maas and Branka Vrank. She married 2 January 1891 in Tiel, 18 years old, to the photographer Jacob Samuel Boas, a son of Samuel Benedictus Boas and Aaltje Samuel Cohen. Sara and Jacob had two children together, namely Aaltje and Branka. Both have been killed during the Holocaust in Auschwitz.
Jacob Samuel Boas, who lived in Arnhem, passed away on 29 May 1900 in Utrecht, 40 years old. The widow Sara Maas remarried 17 April 1901 in Arnhem to Elias Horneman, also a photographer, a son of David Horneman ad Leentje Davidson. Sara and Elias had together another three children, namely Leentje, Marjanna and David. Both daughters from Sara's 2nd marriage might have survived the Shoah. David Horneman however was killed in Sobibor on 9 April 1943.
Elias Horneman was placed on 16 November 1925 in the psychiatric institution Maasoord at Poortugaal, where he passed on 25 March 1927. Sara Maas, now for the 2nd time widowed, moved 5 August 1930 to the St. Mariastraat 5 b in Rotterdam, were she passed away on 6 February 1941.
The funeral records at the Jewish cemetery in Rotterdam reveal that Sara Horneman-Maas was buried there.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Elias Horneman and Sara Maas, website www.wiewaswie.nl; The Urecht Archive; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, cards of Aaltje Boas, Branka Boas and David Horneman.