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The Van Pels family at Zuider Amstellaan

Hermann van Pels and his family were still registered here for several months after hiding in the Secret Annex on 13 July 1942.

Event

May 6, 1940 - Dec. 30, 1942

52.34519 N 4.90165 E

Zuider Amstellaan 34 II

Amsterdam

Nederland

Hermann van Pels was registered with his family from 6 May 1940 at Zuider Amstellaan 34 II. When he moved from Biesboschstraat, lodgers Jakob and Sigmund Kaufmann moved with him.[1] Also registered at this address were:

  • Mozes Maximiliaan van Kreveld (19 August 1940-2 April 1941)
  • Bartha Elizabeth de Vries (27 March 1941-23 November 1945)
  • Andries de Rosa (31 March 1941-21 May 1941).[2]

This was a four-room house, furnished with things brought from Germany.[3] The rent in 1942 was fifty-five guilders a month, plus twenty for heating.[4] The Van Pels family left the house on 13 July 1942, but the Population Register did not deregister them until 30 December 1942, with the entry 'V O W' ('Vertrokken Onbekend Waarheen' - Departed, Destination Unknown).

Homeowner Hilwis had the property cleared on Friday 30 October 1942. The house got a new tenant on 1 November.[4] Miep Gies recounted the emptying of the house in the Secret Annex on the following Monday.[5] In the B-version of her diary, Anne dates this 29 October and uses the term 'ontmeubeld' ("the furniture has been removed...").[6] Hilwis received compensation of 218 guilders and 11 cents for the loss of rent suffered between 1 August and 1 November.[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten H. van Pels, J.S. Kaufmann en S.H. Kaufmann.
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Woningkaarten (toegangsnummer 5445), inv. nr. 303, Woningkaarten Rooseveltlaan 34 - 34 II.
  3. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC) Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_076: Otto Frank aan Elisabeth Späth (i.v.m. schadevergoeding), 7 maart 1961.
  4. a, b AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Merwedeplein_I_006: Verzoek eigenaar Hilwis aan Het Eigendomsrecht om huurschade te innen bij Liro, ongedateerd.
  5. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 2 November 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  6. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 29 October 1942, in: The Collected Works.
  7. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Merwedeplein_I_008, Het Eigendomsrecht aan Hilwis III, 4 december 1942.