Meijer Bont was a son of Emanuel Bont and Judith Frank. Meijer was a "commercial traveller, dealing in tobacco's". On 14 May 1924 he married Susanna Bromet in Amsterdam, a daughter of Mozes Bromet and Rachel Kosman. Their son Emmanuel, who became a tailor by trade, was born in Antwerp on 17 March 1925.
After the marriage, Meijer Bont and his wife left Amsterdam for Antwerp, where they lived at Del…