Levie Zonligt, born in Amsterdam 29 September 1883, was a son of Alexander Zonligt and Leentje Saphier. He 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, and Salomon were all killed in the Shoah.
Levie married 18 April 1917 in Amsterdam Naatje de Vries, a daughter of Hartog de Vries and Elisabeth Würtz. The couple had a son on 21 April 1918 named Henri. Before his marriage, Levie Zonligt lived at Oude Zijds Achterburgwal 86 in Amsterdam, but since 1908, Levie stayed already in Borgerhout (Antwerp) and from 6 August 1910 he lived in with M. Peeters in Ketstraat 6 in Antwerp. On 2 September 1911, Levie returned again to Oude Zijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam, but now at nr. 90.
From April 1912 till March 1917 Levie lived at Nieuwe Kerkstraat 108 but then moved to Transvaalstraat 57 in Amsterdam-East, where he married Naatje de Vries in April 1917 and where their son Henri was born in 1918. In June 1930 the family moved to Pythagorasstraat 10 and on 29 March 1932 they moved again in the same street, but now to nr. 18, where Levie Zonligt started a guesthouse.
At the time of the mandatory registration of the Jews in Holland, Levie Zonligt described his guesthouse as “Resthouse Zonligt”, of which he was the “resthous owner. His wife Naatje de Vries was registered as “director” and their now 23-year old son Henri as “nurse”. Rebecca Bont, with whom Henri still married in 1942, was just “seamstress readymade clothing”. Because of that, Levie, his wife Naatje, his son Henri and also yet his wife Rebecca obtained a “Sperre” from the Jewish Council and were provisionally exempted from deportation.
Nevertheless, on 23 March 1943 Levie Zonligt, his wife Naatje de Vries, his son Henri and his daughter-in-law Rebecca Bont were carried off from the Pythagorasstraat to Westerbork and registered in the penal barrack 66. Henri and Rebecca had received a call for the work expansion in Germany, to which they apparently not had responded to, with probably as a result, that the whole family was arrested and in Westerbork were locked in in that penal barrack. On 30 March, only Henri Zonligt and his wife Rebecca Bont were deported to Sobibor with a so called “penal transport”, where on arrival there on 2 April 1943 they were immediately killed. However, the date of deportation for Levie Zonligt and his wife Naatje appeared to be postponed from 30 March till 13 April 1943. That date both were put on transport to Sobibor and on arrival there on 16 April 1943 immediately killed.
Sources among others: family registration card of Levie Zonligt and archive cards of Levie Zonligt and Naatje de Vries, Henri Zonligt and Rebecca Bont; the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 125034, images 654-657; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Levie Zonligt, Naatje Zonligt-de Vries, Henri Zonligt and Rebecca Zonligt-Bont; transport lists of 20 March 1943 from Westerbork; transport list with changed date of deportation for Levie Zonligt and Naatje Zonligt-de Vries; certificates of death made out in Amsterdam, nrs 215, Reg.10-Fol.37verso for Levie Zonligt and nr. 345, Reg. 10-fol 60 for Naatje Zonligt-de Vries and the wikipedia list of Jew Transports from the Netherlands.