Wedding-day of Jan Gies and Miep Santrouschitz
Jan Gies and Miep Santrouschitz married on 16 July 1941 in Amsterdam.
Miep en Jan Gies en hun gasten op hun huwelijksdag, voor Prinsengracht 263, 16 juli 1941.
Onbekend. Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam Copyright: Status onduidelijk
The wedding of Jan Gies and Miep Santrouschitz took place on 16 July 1941. Jan's previous marriage had been dissolved by divorce on 7 November 1940.[1] Miep's foster father Laurens Nieuwenburg and Otto Frank serves as witnesses.[2].
Surviving wedding photographs show the following guests: Laurens and Anna Nieuwenburg, their granddaughter Irene, Otto Frank, Anne Frank, Bep Voskuijl, Esther Troeder, Pine Wuurman and Branca Boom.[3] Another photo shows Hermann and Auguste van Pels, Victor Kugler and two other unidentifed people.[4] Two photographs were also taken in and in front of the Opekta building on Prinsengracht. These show Jan and Miep Gies, Otto Frank, Anne Frank, Hermann van Pels, Bep Voskuijl and an unidentified man and woman.[5]
Miep describes in her Herinneringen how much trouble it took her to obtain a birth certificate from Vienna.[6] A copy of her 'Geburts- und Tauf-Schein' was issued on 29 January 1941; an extract of the 1909 official confirmation of paternity by Eipeldauer was issued on 2 May 1941.[7] In the two years preceding the marriage, the birth and baptism certificates of Miep's mother (extract 29 November 1940), grandfather (extract 17 February 1939) and grandmother (extract 23 February 1939) were also issued. The latter extract is stamped 'Gültig nur zum Nachweise der arischen Abstammung'.[8] These documents were most likely issued in view of the intended marriage.
In an interview, Miep says that the sausage for the wedding party was arranged by Daatzelaar, representative of Gies & Co. and later voucher supplier of the Secret Annex.[9]
To mark their one-year wedding anniversary on 18 July 1942, a dinner was organised in the Secret Annex. The menu has been preserved:
Offered by "THE SECRET ANNEX" on the occasion
of the one-year anniversary of the marriage of
the esteemed Mr and Mrs GIES.
B o u i l l o n
a la Hunzestraat
Roast beef SCHOLTE
Salade Richelieu
Salade Hollandaise
1 Pomme de terre
SAUCE DE BOEUF
very minimal use please in connection
With reduction in butter ration.
RIZ a la Trautsmandorff
(Surrogate)
Sugar, Cinnamon, Raspberry juice
CO F F E E with sugar, cream
and various surprises. [10]
They had a son Paul, and the marriage ended with Jan's death in 1993 .
Footnotes
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J.A. Gies.
- ^ SAA, Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 6677: Register van huwelijksakten 1941, deel 22, 17v, akte 33
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Gies_III_038; A_Gies_III_003.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Gies_III_036. Meer foto's van het huwelijk zijn te vinden onder reg. code: A_Gies_III_001 en A_Gies_III_005.
- ^ AFS Digitale fotocollectie: Huwelijksdag Miep groepsfoto binnen.en groepsfoto buiten.
- ^ Miep Gies en 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. 69-71.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Gies_I_023: "Geburts- und Tauf-Schein", gedateerd 29 januari 1941; AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Gies_I_027: Afschrift 2 mei 1941.
- ^ (“Geburts- Und Taufscheine” Karoline Santrouschitz, Georg Santrouschitz en Magdalena Lakner. Zie: AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Gies_I_024, 025 en 026. Deze documenten zijn wellicht ten behoeve van de naturalisatieprocedure uit 1939.
- ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Santrouschitz: Interview door Wouter van der Sluis en Janrense Boonstra, 1992, deel 3, p. 3.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Gies_I_032: Menukaart met het menu van het diner in het Achterhuis, 18 juli 1942.