Abraham de Jong, born in Amsterdam on 9 October 1878, was a son of Philip Mozes de Jong and Klaartje Bartels. When Abraham was 20 years old, he became a member of the ANDB, the General Dutch Diamond Workers' Union, where he was trained in rose- and brilliant polishing. His first membership started on 1 January 1898 as a brilliant polisher’s assistant in section 2.
On 18 August 1910, Abraham de Jong married Sara Pop in Amsterdam, who was born on 21 May 1886 as the daughter of Leendert Pop and Elisabeth Juliard. The couple had four children, namely: Clara on 12 January 1912, Philip Leendert on 23 March 1914, Leendert Philip on 14 July 1917 and Maurice on 5 September 1925.
By the way: on 5 March 1909, Abraham left for Antwerp for a few days (perhaps partly for a short visit to his future parents-in-law Leendert Pop and Elisabeth Pop-Juliard, who had moved there at the end of November 1908); on 10 March 1909 he returned to Amsterdam already again.
After the marriage was concluded in 1910, the De Jong-Pop couple moved into living space at 2e Jan van der Heijdenstraat 37 3rd floor, but three years later in 1913, they moved to Vrolikstraat 263 2nd level in Amsterdam East. Abraham's father died there on 1 April 1913 and was interred at the Zeeburg Jewish cemetery.
Meantime, daughter Clara and son Philip Leendert had been born and a year after the death of his father, Abraham de Jong's family left for Antwerp, where they arrived on 12 May 1914 at Beekstraat 32. However, they returned already again on 24 August 1914 to Vrolikstraat 263 II in Amsterdam, where Abraham's mother Klaartje Bartels still lived. She died there on 25 December 1914, aged 63, and was interred at the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
After the death of Klaartje Bartels, Abraham de Jong's family continued to live at Vrolikstraat 263 II in Amsterdam. Their sons Leendert Philip and Maurice were born there in 1917 and 1925. But then, on 13 September 1926, Abraham de Jong left for Antwerp again, who then lived temporarily there at Wipstraat 48. On 30 November 1926, his wife Sara Pop and their four children also followed, after which the family settled at Van der Delftstraat 39 in the Deurne district of the municipality of Antwerp.
During the years 1926 to 1934, Abraham de Jong earned his living as a diamond worker, also in Antwerp (Deurne); He had been a member of the Belgian Diamond Workers' Union, the ADB, since 1916. But at the beginning of July 1934 the family returned permanently to Amsterdam and settled at Blasiusstraat 67 II, after which they moved to the 2nd floor of Krugerstraat 29 in the Transvaal district of Amsterdam East on 22 December 1936.
Of the De Jong family, Abraham, his wife Sara Pop and son Maurice were most likely arrested during the large-scale raids at the beginning of October 1942 and carried off to Westerbork. Also, on 3 October 1942, the Jewish labor camps in the Northern Netherlands were liquidated by the Germans and all Jewish forced laborers were concentrated in Camp Westerbork at the same time, as a result of which it was a great chaos there, which meant that not everything and everyone was registered "correctly" and administered “properly” upon entry.
However, her registration card from the Jewish Council states that Sara de Jong-Pop entered Westerbork on 3 October 1942, but this is not stated on the registration cards of her husband Abraham and son Maurice. But they were most likely also brought into Westerbork on 3 October 1942. The 64-year-old Abraham de Jong was then deported in a direct transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 9 October and murdered in the gas chambers after his arrival there on 15 October 1942. Of the 1703 deportees, 4 were survivors.
56-year-old Sara de Jong-Pop and her 17-year-old son Maurice were deported to Auschwitz on 12 October 1942, also in a direct transport. All 1711 deportees arrived in Auschwitz on 15 October 1942, after which many were murdered immediately in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau upon arrival, including Sara de Jong-Pop.
After the war, it was established about her son Maurice de Jong that he was probably put to work in Monowitz (Auschwitz III) as a 17-year-old, but whose date of death could not be determined individually. After research by the Red Cross (publised 1953), it was determined that the latest date of death of those, who were put to work, but whose time of death could not be determined individually, should be assumed to be as 28 February 1943.
After the war and after investigation, the Dutch Ministry of Justice commissioned the municipality of Amsterdam to draw up death certificates for Abraham de Jong (certificate 59 of 11 November 1950 from the A-register 58-folio 11), for Sara de Jong -Pop (deed 109 of 7 December 1950 from the A-register 60-folio 20) and for Maurice de Jong (deed 63 of 10 November 1950 from the A-register 58-folio 12).
Ultimately, there turned out to be 8 survivors after the liberation in 1945.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, closed family registration cards with Mozes Philip de Jong and Abraham de Jong; family registration cards of Abraham de Jong; archive cards of Abraham de Jong, Sara Pop, and Clara, Philip Leendert, Leendert Philip and Maurice de Jong; Amsterdam residence card of Vrolikstraat 263 II with Abraham de Jong; the archives of the ANDB/membership card of Abraham de Jong (with notes about membership of the ADB Belgium); the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp no. 154789 – image 93-98 with Abraham de Jong and Sara Pop; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham de Jong, Sara de Jong-Pop and Maurice de Jong; the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland and the archives of the Red Cross/publication 1953 Auschwitz III – chapter III – transport 9 October 1942 pages 72-74 and of 12 October 1942 pages 74-77and the death certificates from the City Archive Amsterdam for Abraham and Maurice de Jong (nr. 59 and 63 from A-58/folio 11 and 12) and for Sara de Jong-Pop (nr. 109 from A-60/folio 20).