Elisabeth Lea Root, daughter of Mozes Root and Leentje Frank, remarried 6 December 1916 in Amsterdam the diamond polisher Joseph Zinger, a son of Mozes Abraham Zinger and Femmetje Tonningen en they lived at Rapenburgerstraat 132 in the old city-centre of Amsterdam. Together they had four children, namely Mozes, Leentje, Abraham Joseph and Sarah. Also Elisabeth’s daughter Femmie Montanhes from her previous marriage, lived in with the Zinger family.
Soon after Elisabeth Lea Root divorced Isaäc Montanhes in October 1910, Mozes was already born on 17 July 1911. A pre-martial child but he was recognized and legalized at birth by both his mother Elisabeth Lea Root and his biological father Joseph Zinger.
Joseph Zinger then left for Brooklyn in the U.S.A. on 27 May 1914 but he returned to Amsterdam in time, to recognize and legalize his daughter Leentje, who was born 20 January 1915 in the Govert Flinckstraat 358 (where they lived in with Andersen); Joseph and Elisabeth are still not married, therefore also Leentje is a pre-martial child.
After Joseph Zinger and Elisabeth Lea Root have been married in December 1916 , their son Abraham Joseph was born 9 November 1917 and on 25 April 1919, their joint fourth child followed: Sarah.
On 23 October 1921, the whole Zinger family with their four children and daughter Femmie Montanhes left for Antwerp. They lived there in the Van Immerzeelstraat 9 and in the Lange Kievitstraat 75. However, they arrived in Belgium without visa so the authorities of the city of Antwerp did not make a “proposal for a stay”, so on 15 December 1921 they were already back in Amsterdam, where they found housing in the Eerste Oosterparkstraat 120 in Amsterdam-East with the widow of Mordechay Morpurgo.
They then moved about six more times, until Joseph Zinger was given a home on 6 September 1934 in the Hofmeyerstraat 5 3rd floor in Amsterdam-East. His wife Elisabeth Lea however, was already the year before, in October 1933 admitted in the Central Israelitic Psychiatric Hospital “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch” in Apeldoorn. Three years later she was discharged in July 1936 and returned to Amsterdam, husband and children.
Their son Mozes Zinger still stayed in “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch” from where on 23 January 1943 he was put on transport to Auschwitz, when the Germans came "to empty" the Pyschiatric Hospital. On arrival there on 25 January 1943 he and all others were immediately murdered.
Their youngest daughter was working as domestic aid. She was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 4 September 1942 and on arrival there on 7 September 1942 immediately murdered.
Their children Leentje Zinger, who was an office clerk, and Abraham Joseph Zinger, who was a warehouse clerk, have survived the Holocaust. Leentje has married Rolf Hergershausen from Duisburg on 13 May 1942 in Amsterdam. He however lost his life on 15 March 1945 in the concentration camp Langenstein-Zwieberge, a satellite camp of Buchenwald.
Elisabeth Lea Zinger-Root has been hospitalized on 15 July 1942 again in “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch”. She was put on transport on 23 January 1943 to Auschwitz, together with all other patients and staff and her son Mozes and on arrival there she, her son and all others were immediately murdered.
After his wife was admitted again, her husband Joseph Zinger moved from Hofmeyerstrata 5 3rd floor to Middenweg 201 parterre, where he lived in with Fijtje de Groot. On 3 April 1943 he was arrested and carried off to Westerbork, from where he has been deported on 6 April to Sobibor. On arrival there on 9 April 1943 Joseph Zinger was immediately murdered.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Joseph Zinger, archive cards of Joseph Zinger, Mozes Zinger, Leentje Zinger, Sarah Zinger and Elisabeth Lea Root; Residence card of Eerste Oosterparkstraat 120 in Amsterdam; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Joseph Zinger, Mozes Zinger, Leentje Zinger, Abraham Joseph Zinger Sarah Zinger and Elisabeth Lea Root; certificates of birth from Amsterdam for Mozes Zinger and Leentje Zinger and the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 130082 image 798-803.