Meijer Schnitzler was a son of Samuel and Sara Schnitzler, born on 16 July 1879 in Rotterdam and tailor by profession. He started looking for his own living space and left his parental home in the Almondestraat 24a, where his sister Keetje was head of Schitzler family then, and went to Benthuizerstraat79b, where he livied in with Abraham Davids, who was married to his sister Rebecca. Meijer returned to Almondestraat 24a in March 1924 and lived in then again with his sister Anna and brother-in-law Bernardus van Klaveren. On 8 August 1928 Meijer married Sophia Cohen and the both moved in then in a house at Katshoek 23b. They had no children. After being moved to Prinsenstraat 54b, his wife Sophia Cohen passed away there on 2 March 1930.
Three weeks later, on 24 March, Meijer found lodging in the Zwart Janstraat 64. Presumably Meijer was not completely healthy because from 25 November 1932 he used the provisions of the Invalidy Act. In the years between 1930 and 1935 he moved another three times to different addresses in the Zwart Janstraat and through the Noordsingel 40a and 39b he arrived on 18 November 1937 at the address Baan 53 near the Leuven port in Rotterdam. Thereafter, Meijer Schnitzler ended up in the Jewish Hospital in the Schietbaanlaan 42, where he passed away on 19 February 1938.
Sources among others: the city Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Samuel Schnitzler (1833), Keetje Schnitzler, Meijer Schnitzler and Bernardus van Klaveren; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council registration cards of Keetje Schnitzler, Anna van Klaveren-Schnitzler and Bernardus van Klaveren.