Heintje de Wit, who was married in Rotterdam on 15 December 1923 to Abraham Philip Wijnberg, was born on 21 January 1902 in Rotterdam as the youngest of the six children of Philip de Wit and Aaltje Tammerijn. Her spouse Abraham Philip Wijnberg was born on 28 February 1896 in Assen; he was a son of Philip Abraham Wijnberg and Mientje Groenberg. The couple Wijnberg-de Wit had three children, namely Philip Abraham in 1924, Mientje Aaltje in 1925 and Aaltje Johanna in 1930.
Abraham Philip Wijnberg was working as a warehouse clerk, as a commercial traveller and was later a shopkeeper in haberdasheries. From his previous residence Groningen, the then still unmarried Abraham Philip Wijnberg arrived in Rotterdam on 11 Febuary 1920, where he got married in December 1923 to Heintje de Wit. Abraham and Heintje then moved into a house in the Lusthofstraat 135a, but later moved again to the Goudschesingel, the Allard Piersonstraat and the Hugo Molenaarstraat, until they came living on 21 May 1932 in the Oranjeboomstraat 89b.
On 29 May 1935 the family moved to Hoogstraat 10 in Gouda, but their last known address there was Markt 54, as also registered in 1941 with the Jewish Council. They came to live there on 30 October 1939. The Wijnberg family, except the son Philip Abraham, was carried off and registered in Westerbork on 30 September 1942 and already put on transport to Auschwitz on 2 October 1942.
The then 18-year old son Philip Abraham Wijnberg was only arrested and carried off to Westerbork on 11 June 1943, where he ended up in barrack 63. On 29 June he was deported to Sobibor where on arrival there on 2 July 1943 he has been murdered in the gas chambers immediately.
Abraham Philip Wijnberg, his wife Heintje de Wit and their children Mientje Aaltje and Aaltje Johanna were already put on transport to Auschwitz two days after registration in Westerbork on 30 September 1942. The transport of 2 October 1942 was the first transport via the extended railroad track to the camp and also a so-called Kozel-transport; in Kozel, located ± 80 km west from Auschwitz, was made a stop where 160 boys and men between 15 and 50 years of age were forced to leave the train, to be deployed as forced labourers in the surrounding labor camps of Upper Silesia.
Abraham Philip Wijnberg, then 46 years old, belonged to the group of 160 men who had to leave the train in Kozel. He ended up in Schoppenitz, today a district of the city of Katowice in Poland, located ± 8 km east from the city centre. There, during the nazi-era, a forced labor camp was established for male Jews. Till November 1942 the deported Jews had to work at the railway construction and the zinc factory, sometimes till their death. (source: website https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szopienice#cite_note-1). Eventually Abraham Philip Wijnberg has lost his life there on 30 November 1942.
The transport of 2 October 1942 involved 1014 deportees in total. After the stop in Kozel, the remaining 854 prisoners who were left behind in the train, were transported onwards to Auschwitz. The deportation train arrived there on 5 October 1942 and upon arrival, Heintje Wijnberg-de Wit and her daughters Mientje Aaltje and Aaltje Johanna were murdered immediately in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Abraham Philip Wijnberg; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Philip Wijnberg, Heintje Wijnberg-de Wit, Mientje Aaltje Wijnberg, Aaltje Johanna Wijnberg and Philip Abraham Wijnberg;death certificatd made out in Gouda dated 16 May 1950 for Philip Abraham Wijnberg; Yad Vashem testimonies for Abraham Philip Wijnberg by Raphael de Levie; the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl; the Archive of Gouda - peoples registry of the Wijnbergfamily and an addition of a visitor of the website.