Selly Lakmaker, a daughter of Jacob Gerrit Lakmaker and Betje Jacob Goudsmit, was born in Amsterdam on 23 August 1870. She married at the age of 20 on 18 February 1891 the 18-year old Zacharias Pront, a son of Isak Pront and Dina Agsteribbe. They had five children, namely Jacob, Izak, Abraham, Dina and Gerrit, who all have been murdered during the Shoah.
After their wedding day in February 1891, Selly and Zacharias moved into a house in the Korte Houtstraat 24b but on 16 March 1893, they moved to no. 20 in the same street, in 1895 to the Verwerstraat 14 and on 28 June 1905 they moved into a house at the 1st floor of Blasiusstraat 107 in Amsterdam-East.
Since 5 March 1898, Zacharias Pront was a member of the ANDB, the Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkers Bond (Dutch Diamond workers Trade Union) and he was a member of trade group 3, brilliant adjusters. (A brilliant adjuster sets and adjusts the diamond to be cut in the cap (holder) so that the brilliant polisher has in front of him the correct piece of diamond to be faceted on the grinding wheel).However, he died on 27 June 1937 at the aged of 65 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
As a widow, Selly Pront-Lakmaker remained living at Blasiusstraat 107 1st stock, from where she was fetched and carried off to Westerbork on 14 November 1942. On 30 November 1942 she was put on transport to Auschwitz. This transport of in total 826 deportees included also the 367 Jewish workers of the Amsterdam Clothing Factory Hollandia Kattenburg. After a stop at Kozel, located ±80 km west from Auschwitz, also 170 boys and men between 15 and 50 years of age had to leave forcedly the train to be deployed as forced labourers in the surrounding labor camps of Upper Silesia.
Those, who remained in the train were transported onwards to Auschwitz, among them also the already 72-year old Selly Pront-Lakmaker. Upon arrival there on 3 December 1942, she (and the many others), were immediately murdered in the gas chambers.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Zacharias Pront, archive cards of Selly Lakmaker; the archive of the ANDB/Zacharias Pront; website hetstenenarchief.nl/grave Zacharias Pront; the Amsterdam residence card of Blasiusstraat 107; the file cabinet of the jewish Council, registration card of Selly Pront-Lakmaker and the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.