Leendert Pront, an office clerk, and his wife Eva Pront-Parsser, born in Borgerhout near Antwerp, tried to flee to Switzerland. They were arrested by the Swiss police and handed over to the authorities in France. On 23 June 1943 they were deported from the transit camp Drancy to Auschwitz. Eva was murdered there on 2 January 1944. Leendert died in Germany at the end of May 1945.