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Miep Gies worked at Schellekens Borduur- en Plisseerateliers

From 1 September 1927 to 1 December 1932, Miep Gies worked in the office at Schellekens.

Event

Sept. 1, 1927 - Dec. 1, 1932

52.366204 N 4.902096 E

Nieuwe Herengracht 5-9

Amsterdam

Nederland

The firm Schellekens' Borduur- en Plisseerateliers (Schellekens' Embroidery and Pleating Workshops) was located at 5-9 Nieuwe Herengracht from 1915 to 1938.[1] Miep Gies worked there for four-and-a-half years after leaving a MULO school, according to her foster parents.[2] She was listed in the staff address book with the address Gaaspstraat 12.[1]

According to the Register of Foreign Nationals, she worked in the office at Schellekens for NLG 67.50 a month from 1 September 1927 to 1 December 1932.[3] She worked there as a typist. At Schellekens she met Jan Gies, who was a bookkeeper there.[4]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, inv. nr. 76, Archief Schellekens Borduur- en Plisseerateliers: Inleiding op het archief van Schellekens' Borduur- en Plisseerateliers en dochterondernemingen.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code A_Gies_I_018: Verklaring Nieuwenburg-Moene inzake naturalisatie, 8 juni 1939.
  3. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Gies, Miep: Transcriptie kaart H. Santrouschitz uit Vreemdelingenregister.
  4. ^ Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold, Herinneringen aan Anne Frank. Het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1987, p. 32-33.