Mirjam Anna Bosman

Lauren Bergman

Mirjam Anna Bosman, 2019

Oil on cradled panel

36 x 36 in.

Mirjam Anna was born on December 1, 1933, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Jona Bosman and Eva Bosman-de Levie. She had a younger brother and sister. Mirjam Anna was taken to Westerbork and then to Sobibor in what was thought to be a kindertransport that would bring her to safety. Instead, she was gassed in Sobibor on June 11, 1943, at the age of nine.