David Smit was the seventh child of Nathan Smit and Heintje de Wolff. He was a diamond polisher and earned a living in Antwerp. On 4 Augtust he married there Wilhelmina de Vries who was born in Antwerp, a shop keeper and a daughter of Emanuel David de Vries and Susanna Maria van Acker.
The marriage of Wilhelmina de Vries to David Smit was her 2nd marriage; she was previously married - on 9 January 1923 - to Simon Meljado, who was born 23 September 1901 in Amsterdam as son of the diamond polisher Hartog Meljado and the diamond adjuster Roosje Nieuwit. Simon Meljado passed away in Antwerp on 30 January 1930 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Putte.
Wilhelmina de Vries was deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz on 8 September 1942 with Convoy VIII which arrived there on 10 September. During a stop in Kozel, 281 men were forced to leave the train, but those, who were left behind in the train, were transported onwards to be killed on arrival 10 September 1942 in Auschwitz.
David Smit however, has been deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz only 24 October 1942 with Convoy XV. This transport, which has not made a stop at Kozel, contained 1471 deportees from the 14th as well the 15th convoy and arrived in Auschwitz on 26 October 1942 with a “mass presence of laborers”, who were not sent to the gas chambers immediately. Most of the 895 deportees who were immediately killed, were women. At the end, only 41 persons survived the liberation of the camp. David Smit has arrived in Auschwitz. However, it is not known on which date and where he lost his life.
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