Jesaja Swart was arrested on 9 June 1942 and transferred to the concentration camp at Amersfoort via the house of detention on the Amstelveenseweg. After being tortured extensively, he was deported to Mauthausen.
Joods Historisch Museum, Documentenverzameling, inv.nr 10289, ordner I
Jesaja Swart was the youngest child of Gabriel Swart and Sara Peper. He married Saartje Levitus, the eldest child of Heiman Levitus and Esther Kosses, on 4 August 1909.
Jesaja Swart and Saartje Levitus had ten children: Hijman, Nathan, Marcus, Margaretha, Izak Jacob and five children who survived the war.
The family lived at several addresses in Amsterdam but lived at 43 Czaar Peterstraat from 1938 onward.
Copies remain of the birth certificates of Saartje Levitus and Jesaja Swart, of the marriage certificate of Jesaja Swart and Saartje Levitus, of a request for a huppah in the Rapenburg synagogue with a signature of approval from chief rabbi J. Vredenburg, of a vendor permit registered to Jesaja Swart, of a letter that Jesaja Swart sent his wife from the concentration camp at Amersfoort on 2 August 1942 and data concerning Jesaja Swart from the Mauthausen archive.