Emanuël Hijman van Blijdenstijn was a son of Hijman van Blijdenstijn and Judith Docters. He was born 2 April 1887 in Ophemert as eldest of the six children in this family, of whom in 1893 a stillborn son was born. The other siblings were Antje Jeannette, Maria, Jeannette and Izak, who were all killed during the Shoah.
Emanuël Hijman van Blijdenstijn married Kaatje Levie in Zwolle on 2 May 1916. She was a daughter of Benjamin Levie and the shopkeeper Vrouwke Lievendag and was born there on 5 Otober 1887. Kaatje Levie had nine other siblings of whom Joseph as 3-year old child and her sister Rebekka has died before the war, Betje, Herman Jozef and a 2nd Joseph survived the Holocaust but where Julius shortly after the outbroke of the war died in Amsterdam and Hartog, Samuel and Cato were killed during the Shoah, just like Kaatje self.
Emanuel and Kaatje lived at Willemskade 13 in Zwolle, where Emanuël practiced his profession as a butcher. However, on 3 October 1943 they have been carried off from there to Westerbork and on 16 October deported to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 19 October 1942 both were immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the website wiewaswie.nl; website openarchieven.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cares of Emanuël van Blijdenstijn and Kaatje van Blijdenstijn-Levie and an addition of a visitor of the website.