Johanna Bloemhof was the sixth and youngest child of Salomon Abraham Bloemhof. It was a daughter from his second marriage on 12 January 1911 in Amsterdam with Anna Vleeskruijer, with whom he married two years after the passing of his first wife Roosje Ossendrijver. Johanna had one older sister, Judic, a half-brother Mozes and three half-sisters Cato, Judith and Reintje.
On 17 June 1913, Salomon Abraham Bloemhof left for Borgerhout (Antwerp), where Johanna was born on 10 January 1914, but ten months after her birth, her father and his family were registered again on 12 October 1914 in Amsterdam at Rapenburgerstraat 112. After having moved to Nieuwe Amstelstraat 13 2nd floor, the family moved into a house at Hofmeijerstraat 23 2nd floor in Amsterdam-East on 26 May 1931.
Johanna Bloemhof was a costume dressmaker. She married David Barzilaij in Amsterdam on 14 February 1940, who was a tailor’s cutter and a son of Levie Barzilaij and Lea Santen. That same day the moved into their own home at Majubastraat 59 2nd floor-R in the Transvaal district in Amsterdam-East, but on 27 February 1942 they had to move to Afrikanerplein 50 2nd floor. The Barzilaij couple had two children, namely on 12 March 1941 a daughter Lea and in 1942 a son Sal. Both children have survived the Shoah.
On the evening of 12 March 1943, Johanna Bloemhof and her husband David Barzilaij were taken from their home to Westerbork. There, they were housed in barrack 64 until they were deported to Sobibor on 6 April. On arrival there on 9 April 1943, Johanna Bloemhof and her husband David Barzilaij were immediately killed.
Sources inclued Amsterdam City Archives, archive cards of Johanna Bloemhof and David Barzilaij; the family registration card of Salomon Abraham Bloemhof; the wikipedia list of Jew transports from the Netherlands and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Johanna Barzilaij-Bloemhof and David Barzilaij.