Hartog Zonligt, born 11 June 1876 in Amsterdam, was a son of Alexander Zonligt and Leentje Saphier. He married 16 August 1910 in Antwerp Elisabeth Cohen, born in Amsterdam on 18 September 1885 as daughter of Jacob Cohen and Sara Lissauer. Hartog had another eight siblings, of whom Mozes (1874 survived the Holocaust and passed away in Belgium; Jacob (1875) died still before the war in 1932; Hijman (1878 survived the war too and passed in Rotterdam in 1961. The others, namely Isaac,Elsje, Hartog, Abraham Aron, Levie and Salomon were all killed in the Shoah.
Elisabeth Cohen’s parents lived in Amsterdam, where they married in 1879. In October 1887 the Cohen family moved to Antwerp, where they among others lived in Provinciestraat 42 and Lentestraat 14. The Cohen family then consisted of Jacques Cohen (Jacob), his wife Sara Lissauer and their children Zacharias (1878), Christine (1880), Bernard (1881), Marianne (1884) en Elisabeth (1885). In 1888 Estella was born.
In March 1890, the Jacob Cohen family returned to Amsterdam but left again for Belgium on 13 July 1903: they moved to Borgerhout where Elisabeth married Hartog Zonligt in 1910.
Hartog Zonligt had his official domicile at the Badhuisstraat 25A, located in the Fishing District (Visserijbuurt) of Ancient Scheveningen (Oud Scheveningen), where he had been living since October 1905 and earned his living as a beer bottler. Previously, when he was still living in Amsterdam, he was a butcher. In 1906 he came to Borgerhout to marry Elisabeth Cohen in 1910. There, on 7 June 1911 their son Alexander was born. Hartog then was acting as manufacturer of soda water and they lived at Rolwagenstraat 82 in Antwerp.
In the course of 1914, the Hartog Zonligt family left Antwerp for Germany, where they ended up in the Kray District of the City of Essen. There on 24 July 1915, their son Joseph Zacharias was born. Sources indicated that Hartog Zonligt provided for his living as “cart driver”.
The Hartog Zonligt family returned in 1920 from Kray in Essen in Amsterdam where they were registered at an address at Weesperstraat. There, their daughter Lena was born on 13 June 1920. His profession then was “merchant” and “leather worker”. After several more removals, via Transvaalkade, Waterlooplein and Valckenierstraat, the family arrived in September 1937 in Hertzogstraat 48 3rd floor in East Amsterdam.
Their sons Alexander and Joseph Zacharias were married in respectively 1933 and 1938 and lived after their wedding at own addresses. On the other hand, Lena, still unmarried, lived at home with her parents.
Hartog and Elisabeth were carried off from their residence in Amsterdam to Westerbork on 13 March 1943 where they had to stay in barrack 62. One week later, on 23 March they both were put on transport to Sobibor. There, on arrival on 26 March 1943, Hartog Zonligt and his wife Elisabeth Zonligt-Cohen were immediately killed.
Sources among others: Cityh Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Hartog Zonligt, archive cards of Hartog Zonligt and Elisabeth Cohen, Concluded family registration cards 1892-1920; Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 153897 of Hartog Zonligt, images 153-154 and nr. 63326 of Jacques (Jacob) Cohen, images 447-453 and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Hartog Zonligt.