Jacob Jonas Blitz, born in Amsterdam, was a son of Levie Blitz and Elisabeth Wessel. A few months afther his birth, Jacob Jonas and his parents arrived in Antwerp. As his profession was registered in the Archive of Berchem “light drawer”(lichttekenaar).
Jacob Jonas married in Berchem (Antwerp) Clara Meyer from Antwerp on 10 May 1927. She was a daughter of Abraham Meyer and Joanna Esser. It is not known whether this couple had offspring.
Before their wedding, Clara lived with her parents at Uitbreidingstraat 578 in Berchem; also at that time still her fiancée Jacob Jonas Blitz lived there. After the wedding their address became Pretoriusstraat 22 and per 22 January 1937, the family lived at Spillemansstraat 17 at Borgerhout.
Jacob Jonas Blitz as also his wife Clara Meyer, were put on transport 15 January 1943 with Convoy 18 (prisoners number 907 and 908), from Mechelen to Auschwitz. Also the 19th Convoy left that same date. Both convoys were merged to one transport including 1555 persons. It took howver 2 ½ month before this number of prisoners was grasped that 15th of January 1943. The arrest of Jacob Jonas and Clare must therefore have taken place somewhere between the end of October 1942 and half January 1943.
The Memorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews writes about this among others: Since 1 November 1942 the average number of arrests per day was decreased to 21. The SS-men of the final solution had to organize raids. Assisted by Belgian agents, mainly Flemish SS-men in Antwerp and Brussels, who were more numerous, they tried to locate Jews in their hiding places.
18 January 1943 this transport arrived in Auschwitz and 1087 persons were killed immediately upon arrival there; 468 persons entered the actual camp where they were registered but at the time of the liberation of Auschwitz, most of them have lost their lives. Therefore, it might be plausible that Jacob Jonas Blitz and also his wife Clara Meyer were killed immediately upon arrival of convoy 18 on 18 January 1943 in Auschwitz.
Archive 968 Berchem dossier of foreigners image 166-169; Municipality of Berchem, archive 14103 and the Meomorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews, pages 29, 116 and 382.