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"content": "<p>In Westerbork, the eight people in hiding met all sorts of people, both familiar and new, who after the war testified about their encounters with Anne, Margot, Edith, Otto, Peter, Hermann, Auguste and Fritz. One of them was Bloeme Emden, a former classmate of Margot.<sup data-footnote-id=\"4gc28\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bloeme Emden was born on<strong> 5 July 1926</strong> in Amsterdam to a warm and politically aware family.<sup data-footnote-id=\"lpayj\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup> She had a six years younger sister Via Roosje Emden (1932-1943) and lived at Lutmastraat 194 II in Amsterdam.<sup data-footnote-id=\"k6bwk\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup> Bloeme grew up in an almost entirely Jewish environment, although her parents were not religiously Jewish.</p>\r\n\r\n<h1>Anti-Jewish measures</h1>\r\n\r\n<p>In <strong>1941</strong>, because of the anti-Jewish measures, Bloeme, like other Jewish pupils, had to go to the Jewish Lyceum. There she came into contact for the first time with Margot Frank, who was in her parallel class. Bloeme also remembered Anne Frank, but because of the age difference they did not get involved with each other much.<sup data-footnote-id=\"1vycc\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In <strong>1942</strong>, when the deportations started, the classes at the Jewish Lyceum became increasingly empty. In <strong>July 1942</strong>, Bloeme, like Margot Frank, received a summons to report for work in Germany.<sup data-footnote-id=\"4w8ic\"><a href=\"#footnote-5\" id=\"footnote-marker-5-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[5]</a></sup> Her father Emanuel Emden (1889-1943) was so desperate that he went to the Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung and arranged a sperre (temporary exemption) for his daughter.<sup data-footnote-id=\"lpayj\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-2\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In <strong>May 1943</strong> Bloeme was taken away from home and taken to the Hollandsche Schouwburg. She managed to avoid being registered and could escape by walking with the children to the crèche across the street and by running with the tram that blocked the view from the theatre. Through friends of her parents' she managed to go into hiding.</p>\r\n\r\n<h1>Imprisoned</h1>\r\n\r\n<p>After fifteen hiding places, she was arrested in <strong>August 1944</strong> when the resistance group she was with was betrayed. Bloeme had been in hiding for a total of 15 months before she arrived in Westerbork, where she met the Frank family again.<sup data-footnote-id=\"54gbm\"><a href=\"#footnote-6\" id=\"footnote-marker-6-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[6]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Just like the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex, Bloeme was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp on <strong>3 September 1944</strong>. There Bloeme ended up in the same barracks as Anne, Margot and Edith Frank.<sup data-footnote-id=\"lpayj\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-3\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In the barracks Bloeme formed a group with thirteen Dutch women, including Lenie de Jong-van Naarden. The group was able to support each other and helped each other whenever possible. Anne, Margot and Edith Frank were also regular visitors and Bloeme remembered that the three of them were always together.<sup data-footnote-id=\"acnbf\"><a href=\"#footnote-7\" id=\"footnote-marker-7-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[7]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bloeme could still remember the last time she had seen the Frank family:</p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>"There had been another selection. I spoke to Mrs. Frank with Margot; Anne was somewhere else, she had Krätze. (...) So Anne couldn't come with our group, and Mrs. Frank, seconded by Margot, said: 'And of course we're going with her.' I remember nodding, that I understood that. That was the last I saw of them."<sup data-footnote-id=\"iqn3i\"><a href=\"#footnote-8\" id=\"footnote-marker-8-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[8]</a></sup></blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Bloeme, along with 50 other Dutch Jewish women, was transferred at the end of <strong>October 1944</strong> to an Arbeitslager in Libau, Upper Silesia, where she had to perform forced labour.<sup data-footnote-id=\"88xwf\"><a href=\"#footnote-9\" id=\"footnote-marker-9-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[9]</a></sup> The women worked six and a half days a week and were free on Sunday afternoons. Bloeme remembered that during those free hours, songs were sung that Rozette (Ronnie) van Cleef (1921-2008) wrote to opera and operetta melodies.<sup data-footnote-id=\"42gk7\"><a href=\"#footnote-10\" id=\"footnote-marker-10-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[10]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>They were liberated there on <strong>8 May 1945</strong>: "on the first sunny day in May."<sup data-footnote-id=\"ztsfw\"><a href=\"#footnote-11\" id=\"footnote-marker-11-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[11]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<section class=\"footnotes\">\r\n<header>\r\n<h2>Footnotes</h2>\r\n</header>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"4gc28\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Wikipedia: <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloeme_Evers-Emden\" target=\"_blank\">Bloeme Evers-Emden</a>.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"lpayj\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">a</a>, <a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-2\">b</a>, <a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-3\">c</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Interview Bloeme Evers-Emden, 11 maart 2010.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"k6bwk\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Emanuel Emden.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"1vycc\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Willy Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden. Vrouwen in het spoor van Anne Frank,</em> Hilversum: Gooi & Sticht, 1988, p. 130.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"4w8ic\" id=\"footnote-5\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-5-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank, Dagboek Dagboek A, 8 juli 1942, in: <em>Verzameld werk</em>, Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2013. Op zaterdag 4 juli 1942 verstuurde de <em>Zentralstelle</em> zulke oproepen aan duizend vooral Duitse en deels heel jonge Joden. Deze jongeren moeten zonder hun ouders vertrekken. L. de Jong, <em>Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Deel VI: juli '42 -Mei '43, eerste helft</em>, 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1975, p. 5.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"54gbm\" id=\"footnote-6\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-6-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 132-134.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"acnbf\" id=\"footnote-7\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-7-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 143.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"iqn3i\" id=\"footnote-8\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-8-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 142-143.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"88xwf\" id=\"footnote-9\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-9-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 138. Zie ook Smolinski Foundation: <a href=\"https://smolinski.nl/wp/blog/2016/04/29/krachtbronnen-en-anne-frank/\" target=\"_blank\">Krachtbronnen en Anne Frank</a>.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"42gk7\" id=\"footnote-10\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-10-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer<em>, De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 139; AFS, Getuigenarchief. Interview Bloeme Everts-Emden, 11-maart 2010.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"ztsfw\" id=\"footnote-11\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-11-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Bloeme was the only one of her family to survive the war. Lindwer<em>, De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 145.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>",
"content_nl": "<p>De acht onderduikers uit het Achterhuis ontmoetten in Westerbork allerlei bekende en nieuwe mensen die na de oorlog getuigden over hun ontmoetingen met Anne, Margot, Edith, Otto, Peter, Hermann, Auguste of Fritz. Eén van hen was Bloeme Emden, een oud schoolgenoot van Margot.<sup data-footnote-id=\"u4038\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bloeme Emden werd op <strong>5 juli 1926</strong> geboren in Amsterdam, in een warm en politiekbewust gezin.<sup data-footnote-id=\"g98aq\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup> Ze had een zes jaar jonger zusje Via Roosje Emden (1932-1943) en woonde op de Lutmastraat 194 II in Amsterdam.<sup data-footnote-id=\"vh0fe\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup> Bloeme groeide op in een vrijwel volledig Joodse omgeving, hoewel haar ouders niet-religieus waren.</p>\r\n\r\n<h1>Anti-Joodse maatregelen</h1>\r\n\r\n<p>In <strong>1941</strong> moest Bloeme, vanwege de anti-Joodse maatregelen, net als andere Joodse leerlingen naar het Joods Lyceum. Daar kreeg ze voor het eerst contact met Margot Frank die in haar parallelklas zat. Ook Anne Frank kon Bloeme zich herinneren, maar vanwege het leeftijdsverschil bemoeiden ze zich weinig met elkaar.<sup data-footnote-id=\"9vdno\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In het jaar <strong>1942</strong>, toen de deportaties begonnen, werden de klassen op het Joods Lyceum steeds leger. In <strong>juli 1942</strong> kreeg Bloeme, net als Margot Frank, een oproep om zich te melden voor werk in Duitsland.<sup data-footnote-id=\"u0bid\"><a href=\"#footnote-5\" id=\"footnote-marker-5-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[5]</a></sup> Haar vader Emanuel Emden (1889-1943) was zo wanhopig dat hij naar het <em>Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung</em> ging en daar een <em>Sperre</em> (tijdelijke vrijstelling) regelde voor zijn dochter.<sup data-footnote-id=\"g98aq\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-2\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In <strong>mei 1943 </strong>werd Bloeme alsnog van huis gehaald en overgebracht naar de Hollandsche Schouwburg. Ze wist te voorkomen dat ze geregistreerd werd en kon ontsnappen door met de kinderen mee te lopen naar de crèche aan de overkant en met de tram mee te rennen die het zicht vanuit de Schouwburg blokkeerde. Via vrienden van haar ouders lukte het haar om onder te duiken.</p>\r\n\r\n<h1>Gevangen</h1>\r\n\r\n<p>Na vijftien onderduikadressen werd ze in <strong>augustus 1944</strong> gearresteerd toen de verzetsgroep waarbij ze verbleef was verraden. Bloeme had in het totaal vijftien maanden ondergedoken gezeten voordat ze in Westerbork aankwam en daar opnieuw de familie Frank ontmoette.<sup data-footnote-id=\"p8mej\"><a href=\"#footnote-6\" id=\"footnote-marker-6-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[6]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Net als de acht onderduikers uit het Achterhuis ging Bloeme op <strong>3 september 1944</strong> op transport naar concentratiekamp Auschwitz. Daar kwam Bloeme in dezelfde barak terecht als de Anne, Margot en Edith Frank.<sup data-footnote-id=\"g98aq\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-3\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In de barak vormde Bloeme een groep met dertien Nederlandse vrouwen, waaronder Lenie de Jong-van Naarden. De groep ontleende steun aan elkaar en hielp elkaar waar mogelijk. Ook Anne, Margot en Edith Frank zag Bloeme regelmatig en ze herinnerde zich dat zij altijd gedrieën waren.<sup data-footnote-id=\"2q399\"><a href=\"#footnote-7\" id=\"footnote-marker-7-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[7]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bloeme kon zich de laatste keer dat ze de familie Frank gezien had nog herinneren:</p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>‘Er had weer een selectie plaatsgevonden. Ik sprak mevrouw Frank met Margot; Anne was ergens anders, ze had Krätze. (…) Anne kon dus niet met onze groep mee, en mevrouw Frank, gesecondeerd door Margot zei: ‘En wij gaan natuurlijk met haar mee.’ Ik herinner me dat ik knikte, dat ik dat begreep. Dat was het laatste dat ik van ze gezien heb.’<sup data-footnote-id=\"ydzq7\"><a href=\"#footnote-8\" id=\"footnote-marker-8-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[8]</a></sup></blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Zelf werd Bloeme, net als 50 andere Nederlands Joodse vrouwen, eind <strong>oktober ’44</strong> overgeplaatst naar een <em>Arbeitslager</em> in Libau, Opper-Silezië, waar ze dwangarbeid moest verrichten.<sup data-footnote-id=\"6y2y5\"><a href=\"#footnote-9\" id=\"footnote-marker-9-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[9]</a></sup> De vrouwen werkten zes en halve dag per week en waren op zondagmiddag vrij. Bloeme herinnerde zich dat tijdens die vrije uren liedjes werden gezongen die Rozette (Ronnie) van Cleef (1921-2008) schreef op opera- en operettemelodieën.<sup data-footnote-id=\"kytjl\"><a href=\"#footnote-10\" id=\"footnote-marker-10-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[10]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Op <strong>8 mei 1945</strong> werden ze daar bevrijd: ‘<em>op de eerste zonnige dag in mei</em>.’<sup data-footnote-id=\"ibdui\"><a href=\"#footnote-11\" id=\"footnote-marker-11-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[11]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Adressen:</em><strong> </strong>Lutmastraat 194 II, Amsterdam ('27); Herzliya, Israël.</p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<section class=\"footnotes\">\r\n<header>\r\n<h2>Footnotes</h2>\r\n</header>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"u4038\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Wikipedia: <a href=\"https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloeme_Evers-Emden\" target=\"_blank\">Bloeme Evers-Emden</a>.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"g98aq\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">a</a>, <a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-2\">b</a>, <a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-3\">c</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Interview Bloeme Evers-Emden, 11 maart 2010.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"vh0fe\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Emanuel Emden.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"9vdno\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Willy Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden. Vrouwen in het spoor van Anne Frank,</em> Hilversum: Gooi & Sticht, 1988, p. 130.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"u0bid\" id=\"footnote-5\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-5-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank, Dagboek Dagboek A, 8 juli 1942, in: <em>Verzameld werk</em>, Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2013. Op zaterdag 4 juli 1942 verstuurde de <em>Zentralstelle</em> zulke oproepen aan duizend vooral Duitse en deels heel jonge Joden. Deze jongeren moeten zonder hun ouders vertrekken. L. de Jong, <em>Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Deel VI: juli '42 -Mei '43, eerste helft</em>, 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1975, p. 5.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"p8mej\" id=\"footnote-6\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-6-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 132-134.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"2q399\" id=\"footnote-7\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-7-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 143.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"ydzq7\" id=\"footnote-8\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-8-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 142-143.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"6y2y5\" id=\"footnote-9\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-9-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 138. Ze ook: Smolinski Foundation: <a href=\"https://smolinski.nl/wp/blog/2016/04/29/krachtbronnen-en-anne-frank/\" target=\"_blank\">Krachtbronnen en Anne Frank</a>.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"kytjl\" id=\"footnote-10\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-10-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer<em>, De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 139; AFS, Getuigenarchief. Interview Bloeme Everts-Emden, 11-maart 2010.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"ibdui\" id=\"footnote-11\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-11-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Bloeme bleek uiteindelijk de enige van haar familie die de Holocaust had overleefd. Lindwer<em>, De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 145.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>\r\n</div>",
"content_en": "<p>In Westerbork, the eight people in hiding met all sorts of people, both familiar and new, who after the war testified about their encounters with Anne, Margot, Edith, Otto, Peter, Hermann, Auguste and Fritz. One of them was Bloeme Emden, a former classmate of Margot.<sup data-footnote-id=\"4gc28\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bloeme Emden was born on<strong> 5 July 1926</strong> in Amsterdam to a warm and politically aware family.<sup data-footnote-id=\"lpayj\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup> She had a six years younger sister Via Roosje Emden (1932-1943) and lived at Lutmastraat 194 II in Amsterdam.<sup data-footnote-id=\"k6bwk\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup> Bloeme grew up in an almost entirely Jewish environment, although her parents were not religiously Jewish.</p>\r\n\r\n<h1>Anti-Jewish measures</h1>\r\n\r\n<p>In <strong>1941</strong>, because of the anti-Jewish measures, Bloeme, like other Jewish pupils, had to go to the Jewish Lyceum. There she came into contact for the first time with Margot Frank, who was in her parallel class. Bloeme also remembered Anne Frank, but because of the age difference they did not get involved with each other much.<sup data-footnote-id=\"1vycc\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In <strong>1942</strong>, when the deportations started, the classes at the Jewish Lyceum became increasingly empty. In <strong>July 1942</strong>, Bloeme, like Margot Frank, received a summons to report for work in Germany.<sup data-footnote-id=\"4w8ic\"><a href=\"#footnote-5\" id=\"footnote-marker-5-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[5]</a></sup> Her father Emanuel Emden (1889-1943) was so desperate that he went to the Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung and arranged a sperre (temporary exemption) for his daughter.<sup data-footnote-id=\"lpayj\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-2\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In <strong>May 1943</strong> Bloeme was taken away from home and taken to the Hollandsche Schouwburg. She managed to avoid being registered and could escape by walking with the children to the crèche across the street and by running with the tram that blocked the view from the theatre. Through friends of her parents' she managed to go into hiding.</p>\r\n\r\n<h1>Imprisoned</h1>\r\n\r\n<p>After fifteen hiding places, she was arrested in <strong>August 1944</strong> when the resistance group she was with was betrayed. Bloeme had been in hiding for a total of 15 months before she arrived in Westerbork, where she met the Frank family again.<sup data-footnote-id=\"54gbm\"><a href=\"#footnote-6\" id=\"footnote-marker-6-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[6]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Just like the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex, Bloeme was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp on <strong>3 September 1944</strong>. There Bloeme ended up in the same barracks as Anne, Margot and Edith Frank.<sup data-footnote-id=\"lpayj\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-3\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In the barracks Bloeme formed a group with thirteen Dutch women, including Lenie de Jong-van Naarden. The group was able to support each other and helped each other whenever possible. Anne, Margot and Edith Frank were also regular visitors and Bloeme remembered that the three of them were always together.<sup data-footnote-id=\"acnbf\"><a href=\"#footnote-7\" id=\"footnote-marker-7-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[7]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bloeme could still remember the last time she had seen the Frank family:</p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>"There had been another selection. I spoke to Mrs. Frank with Margot; Anne was somewhere else, she had Krätze. (...) So Anne couldn't come with our group, and Mrs. Frank, seconded by Margot, said: 'And of course we're going with her.' I remember nodding, that I understood that. That was the last I saw of them."<sup data-footnote-id=\"iqn3i\"><a href=\"#footnote-8\" id=\"footnote-marker-8-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[8]</a></sup></blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Bloeme, along with 50 other Dutch Jewish women, was transferred at the end of <strong>October 1944</strong> to an Arbeitslager in Libau, Upper Silesia, where she had to perform forced labour.<sup data-footnote-id=\"88xwf\"><a href=\"#footnote-9\" id=\"footnote-marker-9-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[9]</a></sup> The women worked six and a half days a week and were free on Sunday afternoons. Bloeme remembered that during those free hours, songs were sung that Rozette (Ronnie) van Cleef (1921-2008) wrote to opera and operetta melodies.<sup data-footnote-id=\"42gk7\"><a href=\"#footnote-10\" id=\"footnote-marker-10-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[10]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>They were liberated there on <strong>8 May 1945</strong>: "on the first sunny day in May."<sup data-footnote-id=\"ztsfw\"><a href=\"#footnote-11\" id=\"footnote-marker-11-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[11]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<section class=\"footnotes\">\r\n<header>\r\n<h2>Footnotes</h2>\r\n</header>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"4gc28\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Wikipedia: <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloeme_Evers-Emden\" target=\"_blank\">Bloeme Evers-Emden</a>.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"lpayj\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">a</a>, <a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-2\">b</a>, <a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-3\">c</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Interview Bloeme Evers-Emden, 11 maart 2010.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"k6bwk\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Emanuel Emden.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"1vycc\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Willy Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden. Vrouwen in het spoor van Anne Frank,</em> Hilversum: Gooi & Sticht, 1988, p. 130.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"4w8ic\" id=\"footnote-5\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-5-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank, Dagboek Dagboek A, 8 juli 1942, in: <em>Verzameld werk</em>, Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2013. Op zaterdag 4 juli 1942 verstuurde de <em>Zentralstelle</em> zulke oproepen aan duizend vooral Duitse en deels heel jonge Joden. Deze jongeren moeten zonder hun ouders vertrekken. L. de Jong, <em>Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Deel VI: juli '42 -Mei '43, eerste helft</em>, 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1975, p. 5.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"54gbm\" id=\"footnote-6\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-6-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 132-134.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"acnbf\" id=\"footnote-7\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-7-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 143.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"iqn3i\" id=\"footnote-8\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-8-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 142-143.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"88xwf\" id=\"footnote-9\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-9-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer, <em>De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 138. Zie ook Smolinski Foundation: <a href=\"https://smolinski.nl/wp/blog/2016/04/29/krachtbronnen-en-anne-frank/\" target=\"_blank\">Krachtbronnen en Anne Frank</a>.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"42gk7\" id=\"footnote-10\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-10-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Lindwer<em>, De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 139; AFS, Getuigenarchief. Interview Bloeme Everts-Emden, 11-maart 2010.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"ztsfw\" id=\"footnote-11\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-11-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Bloeme was the only one of her family to survive the war. Lindwer<em>, De laatste zeven maanden</em>, p. 145.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>",
"birth_date": "1926-07-05",
"death_date": "2016-07-18",
"gender": "female",
"birth_place": "Amsterdam",
"birth_country": "Nederland",
"death_place": "Herzliya",
"death_country": "Israël",
"summary": "Bloeme Emden was a classmate of Margot's at the Jewish Lyceum. She met the Frank family in Westerbork and Auschwitz.",
"summary_nl": "Bloeme Emden was een schoolgenoot van Margot op het Joods Lyceum en ontmoette de familie Frank in Westerbork en Auschwitz.",
"summary_en": "Bloeme Emden was a classmate of Margot's at the Jewish Lyceum. She met the Frank family in Westerbork and Auschwitz.",
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