Dina Pront was the unmarried daughter of Zacherias Pront and Selly Lakmaker. She was born in Amsterdam on 22 March 1898 and was employed as a seamstress. She lived at home with her parents, who lived since July 1895 in the Ververstraat 14, located in the neighbourhood of the Nieuwmarkt in the centre of Amsterdam. Dina was born there in 1898 and when her parents moved in June 1905 to Blasiusstraat 107 1st floor, Dina ofcourse came along with them.
Dina was the 4th of the 5 children in the family of Zacharias Pront. Her 4 sibs were Jacob, Izak, Abraham and Gerrit, who later were murdered all during the Shoah, just as her mother Selly Lakmaker and also she self. Her father Zacharias had died already in 1937 in Amsterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Since August 1916, Dina worked at the clothing factory Hollandia Kattenburg in Amsterdam, which the Germans have raided on 11 November 1942 and carried off all Jewish employees. In the end Dina was put on transport on 30 November in the so-called Kattenburg-transport to Auschwitz. This transport included in total 826 deportees, among them 367 employees of the Hollandia Kattenburg factories.
The transport made a stop in Kozel, where 170 persons (boys and men) had to leave the train to be deployed as forced labourers in the surrounding labor camps of Upper Silezia. The remaining deportees, among them also Dina Pront, were transported onwards to Auschwitz and Dina Pront, after arrival there on 3 December 1942, was immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Zacharias Pront, archive card of Dina Pront; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Dina Pront and the website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl