Isaac Zonligt was the eldest son of Alexander Zonligt and Leentje Saphier. He was born 3 July 1869 in Amsterdam and had another eight siblings, of whom Mozes (1874) survived the Holocaust and passed away in Belgium; Jacob (1875) died still before the war in 1932; Hijman (1878) survived the war too and passed in Rotterdam in 1961. The others, namely Elsje, Hartog, Abraham Aron, Levie and Salomon were all killed in the Shoah.
Isaac left Amsterdam for Antwerp in September 1896. There he found employ as “office boy” and diamond polisher en he lived among others in Lentestraat 14, at nr. 16 and in Grote Beerstraat 41. He was unmarried.
During the time that Isaac resided in Antwerp, he was of blameless conduct. As retiree he had an income in 1941 of Bfr. 1480 yearly from an old age pension plus a servants pension of Bfrs. 2520 yearly. Beside that, he had a weekly income support from the Social Security of Antwerp of Bfrs. 14.
Isaac Zonligt was deported on 8 September 1942 with Convoy 8 from Mechelen to Auschwitz. This transport even stopped at Kozel, to select men between 15 and 50 years of age to leave the train. They would be employed as forced labourers in the surrounding work camps of Auschwitz.
Isaac then was already 73 years of age and has been transported onwards with the remaining deportees to Auschwitz to be killed there. The convoy arrived there 10 September 1942 and most likely Isaac Zonligt was killed that same day in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. However the Court of the First Instance, who had a session on 11 March 1960 in Antwerp, has officially established that Isaac Zonligt has been killed in Auschwitz on 11 September 1942.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, copied volumes of concluded family registration cards 1892-1920; the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerpk, nr. 87472, images 926-934 and sequel images 6 and 7; Certificate of Death B269 made out in 19050 by the City of Antwerp and the Memorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews.