Anna Sealtiel, born 7 April 1889 in Amsterdam, was a daughter from the 1st marriage of her father Benjamin Sealtiel and Rachel Dreese. Her mother however passed away already in 1892 and her father remarried in 1894 to Sophia Booleman. Anna married 17 April 1913 in Amsterdam Simon Blits, who was born in Amsterdam on 12 June 1890 as son of Hartog Blits and Sara Koster. On 4 February 1914, their son Hartog was born.
After their wedding they have lived also in Deurne (Antwerp; Simon was a brilliant polisher and he presumably worked for shorter or longer time in the diamond industry in Antwerp. On 17 November 1930 they returned in Amsterdam and moved into a house at Vrolikstraat 293 3rd floor. On 18 March 1931 they moved to Afrikanerplein 24 1st floor in the Transvaal Districe of Eastern Amsterdam, where they have lived till their deportation.
On 6 September 1942 Anna Sealtiel and her husband Simon Blits were carried off to Westerbork and already the next day, on 7 September deported to Auschwitz. There, on arrival on 10 September 1942 they were killed immediately in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Simon Blits and Anna Sealtiel; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Simon Blits and Anna Blits-Sealtiel.