11 Facts About Clara Meijers

Clara Mimi Meijers was a Dutch banker, writer, and feminist.

Clara Meijers founded a women's branch of the Robaver Bank in Amsterdam.

Klara Meijers was born in Amsterdam to the physician Isidor Meijers and Julie Wolff.

Clara Meijers was the fifth child and only daughter in a Jewish family of doctors.

Clara Meijers began work as a French teacher in The Hague, but disliked it.

Clara Meijers suggested to the organizers of the exhibition to pay attention to the banking and office sector, because many women were employed in this sector, and [she] was appointed president of the committee for this sector.

In 1913, Clara Meijers became a member of the Union for Women's Suffrage.

Clara Meijers was a board member and treasurer of the National Union of Soroptimist Clubs.

Clara Meijers moved to various addresses, but in November 1943, she was forced to go to the Westerbork transit camp in the northeastern Netherlands from which she was deported on 4 September 1944 to Czechoslovakia.

In 1946, Clara Meijers published a biography of feminist Rosa Manus.

In 1959, Clara Meijers moved to Zandvoort, Netherlands, and died on 12 October 1964 in Bentveld, at the age of 79.