Jacob Pront, the eldest son of Zacharias Pront and Selly Lakmaker, was born on 9 May 1892 in Amsterdam, worked as a shop assistant and was a framer by profession. He married Aaltje de Hond on 26 December 1915 in Amsterdam; she was a daughter of Mozes de Hond and Esther Buijtekant. The Pront-de Hond couple had two children: Rachel, who survived the Holocaust and Esther, who was killed in Sobibor to…