Saartje Wijtvliet was a daughter of Alida Velleman and the non-Jewish Everhardus Wijtvliet. She was a pre’marital child, born on 14 May 1920 in Rotterdam, but at the time of the marriage of her parents on 7 July 1920 in Haarlem, “with the consent of the mother, recognized by the father as his daughter”. Saartje had a brother Everhardus Jacobus, who was born in 1921 and also a little sister Grietje, born in December 1922 but at the age of 14 months passed away on 5 February 1924.
Saartje’s mother Alida Velleman deceased on 17 October 1924 in her residence Haarlem, only 28-years old, after which her husband remarried on 25 March 1925 the 19-year old Trijntje Zwiers from Blokzijl, a daughter of Antsje Zwiers.
As yet, Saartje lived at home in Haarlem after the passing of her mother, but three years later, since 11 May 1928, when she was 8 years old, she lived till June 1937 in the Bergstichting at Doodweg 4 in Laren (NH). Afterwards she stayed for 7 months at the address Markt 5 in Arnhem. There Beth Mikloth Lezikno was founded in 1900, the Jewish Home for elderly care in Arnhem, where she was probably working as domestic help. Per 15 January 1938, Saartje lived again in the Bergstichting in Laren; from December 1939 till July 1940 she was in the girl’s orphanage in the Rapenburgerstraat 171 in Amsterdam but then she stayed again four months in the Bergstichting till November 1940, when she then came living in with the Louis Pezon family at Badhuisstraat 43 in Haarlem as maid.
On 24 August 1942, Saartje Wijtvliet married the merchant Jacob de Jong in the synagogue of Haarlem. He was a son of David de Jong and Sara Cohen and born in Haarlem on 30 April 1910. According to the registration card of the Jewish Council, Jacob lived at the time of the mandatory registration of the Jews in the Nethelands, in Januari 1941 at the Bakenessergracht 48 red in Haarlem, then still unmarried, but later at the Kennermerstraat 15a-red. Shortly after he got married to Saartje Wijtvliet, Jacob was put on transport via Westerbork to Auschwitz, and in the end he lost his life somewhere in Mid-Europe on 31 March 1944.
Later, up from 27 April 1943, Saartje lived shortly at Amstellaan 84 1st floor in Amsterdam, but was deported via Westerbork – where she had to stay in barrack 55 – to Sobibor on 25 May 1943 where she was killed immediately upon arrival there on 28 May 1943.
Sources include the website wiewaswie.nl/archive Haarlem wedding certificate 389 dated 7 July 1920 of Everhardus Wijtvliet to Alida Velleman and legalization of daughter Saartje, born 14 May 1920; the city archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Saartje Wijtvliet; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Saartje de Jong-Wijtvliet and Jacob de Jong and the certificate of death for Saartje de Jong-Wijtvliet from Amsterdam, A21-46v nr. 270 dated 22 March 1950.