After the war, she married Hans Evers and raised a "relatively large family" in Amsterdam.[3] However, she testified, she was unable to talk about her war experiences with her family.[9] She began studying psychology part-time and became a lecturer in psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 1973. She earned her doctorate in the late 1980s.[3].
Daughter of Emanuel Emden and Rosa Emden-DeVries.
Mother of Sem Evers, Naomi Lucienne Evers, Raphael Evers.
Bloeme was liberated by the Soviets at Liebau on 8 May 1945. She and a small group of friends began walking back to the Netherlands on foot, arriving six weeks later. She discovered that her parents and sister had been deported to the Sobibor extermination camp, where they all perished.[2].
Evers-Emden died in July 2016, eight days before her 90th birthday.
Bloeme Emden was born on 26 July 1926 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Emanuel Emden, a diamond cutter and a socialist,[2] and Rosa Emden-DeVries, a seamstress.[3] Her younger sister, Via Roosje, was born 29 May 1932.[2].
In 1991,[11] she was decorated by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands as an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.[12].
Her son, Raphael Evers, is the Rabbi of Düsseldorf.[13].