Lepelstraat 7

Barend Bouman was born on August 15, 1885 in Vianen, the son of Abraham Bouman (1859-1927) and Betje Vorst (1854-1918). On February 26, 1913, he married the ten-year-old Liza Noach, born in Deventer on July 2, 1875, daughter of Isaak Noach and Marlina Windmuller. Together they would trade in manufactures for many years.

After living in Utrecht for some time, Barend and Liza decided to move to Zeeland in 1918. There they registered on 1 October with the municipality of Vlissingen. Barend's father Abraham also followed seventeen days later. Together they started a shop in metals, manufactures, clothing, skins and skins in the St. Jacobsstraat 3 building on the corner of the Lepelstraat. Dozens of advertisements in the local newspapers testify to a fast-growing company in the cheaper segment of the market. If you wanted to make a good price for your old clothes or household goods, you only had to contact Bouman. In 1919 alone, various batches of sharply purchased goods, second-hand household goods, a large batch of hats and inexpensive Cologne pots were offered in substantial advertisements by the companies Bouman and Zn. By the summer of 1920, it appeared that things had taken off so much that they announced that they would also be holding public auctions in the future. In 1924 a second shop was opened at Lange Delft 120 in Middelburg and the public was able to visit two "Houses of unregulated goods" belonging to this company. However, the Middelburg case seems to have existed only briefly. From the end of 1925, the advertisements only mention the business in the Lepelstraat in Vlissingen.

The Bouman company was looking for cheap, but solid goods. A report of the window display competition that was held in Vlissingen in August 1925 makes this clear again. Where the reporter lyrically gave up on the Greek decor, in which P. Labrujère had set up his shoes in his shop in the Coosje Buskenstraat, and on the Arab temple with light effects of the J.J. Quasters at the Nieuwendijk number 15, he wrote about the shop window of Barend Bouman: "for good and cheap Ladies fabrics we refer to the firm Bouman, Lepelstraat, which shows the various goods in a wide choice." In these years the emphasis was entirely on manufactures and lingerie, antiques and sheets are no longer in the advertisements. Calls for big girls, washerwomen who could use a washing machine and errand boys - preferably 'capable bicycles' - that point to a successful business. The same advertisements show that Barend and Liza lived above the shop at 7 Lepelstraat.

In October 1934, the company expanded its trading empire even further by opening a bedroom supplies store across the street on the corner of Branderijstraat. Before the opening of the new store, the Vlissingse Courant of 19 October 1934 stated: "In this new retail building, the store and shop window are practically united, so that this case is, as it were, a large showroom. Tastefully arranged are several bedroom furniture, folding beds, nice children's beds, single and double beds, cots, etc. The interior of the shop is kept in light matte colors. The cream-colored walls, salmon-colored piping, give the case a neat cachet. The facade is also painted in fresh colors. The lighting is applied in a modern way. Five bulb lamps and seven spotlights provide 3600 candle illumination. Three lamps with a light intensity of 900 candles are also attached to the facade for the large mirror windows. There is a warehouse on the side of the shop. "Later prams and baby items would be added here. Images of the interior and opening of this store can be seen on an amateur video made by their manager Max Peereboom: (http://www.amateurfilmplatform.nl/films/diverse-opnamen-van-familie-bouman-noach-in-vlissingen -amateur recording-max-pear tree). The shop itself no longer exists.

The last advertisement of this company dates from 6 March 1942. Koopman B. Bouman in the Lepelstraat in Vlissingen placed on that date in Het jewsche weekblad: edition of the Jewish Council for Amsterdam a call in which antique furniture, porcelain, silver, paintings and rugs were asked for sale. He was "calling home from home all over the country." Shortly afterwards, Barend and Liza left the province of Zeeland. Barend was forced to move to Amsterdam on March 24, 1942. Liza was already there at the time. In July 1942 they lived at 5 Geleenstraat in Amsterdam. Three months later Bouman was sent to Westerbork and deported to Auschwitz six days after arrival on October 19, 1942. Liza did not arrive in Westerbork until March 20, 1943, where she was sent to Sobibor the same day. Both were murdered shortly after arrival.

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