Jacob Pront, the eldest son of Zacharias Pront and Selly Lakmaker, was born on 9 May 1892 in Amsterdam, worked as a shop assistant and was a framer by profession. He married Aaltje de Hond on 26 December 1915 in Amsterdam; she was a daughter of Mozes de Hond and Esther Buijtekant. The Pront-de Hond couple had two children: Rachel, who survived the Holocaust and Esther, who was killed in Sobibor together with her husband Maurits Delden.
When Jacob was married to Aaltje, they moved into a house at the 3rd stock of the Blasiusstraat 100. They stayed there till 1930; then they moved to house nr. 98 2nd floor and at 9 February 1940 to Camperstraat 66 1st floor in Amsterdam-East. Their daughter Rachel was married already in 1937 to Levie van Emrik; they lived at Vrolikstraat 50 but their youngest, Esther still lived at home; she married in March 1942 Maurits Delden and moved into living space in the Valkenburgerstraat 157 1st floor in April 1942.
It is not impossible that Jacob (and therefore also his wife Aaltje) have been postponed from deportation earlier. Only on 27 March 1943 Jacob Pront and his wife Aaltje de Hond were fetched from their home address and carried off to Westerbork. There they came shortly in barrack 68 but rather quick afterwards they were accommodated in barrack 84a, the so-called “old people's barrack”. One month later, on 27 April 1943, they were put on transport to Sobibor and upon arrival there on 30 April 1943 immediately murdered in the gas chambers.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Jacob Pront, archive cards of Jacob Pront and Aaltje de Hond; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Jaocb Pront and Aaltje Pront-de Hond and the residence card of Amsterdam Blasiusstraat 98 2nd stock.