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Fritz Pfeffer registered at Bernard Zweerskade

Event

June 19, 1940 - Nov. 9, 1944

52.345025 N 4.877395 E

Bernard Zweerskade 20

Amsterdam

Pfeffer was registered at Bernard Zweerskade 20 III from 19 June 1940 to 9 November 1944.[1] Here he occupied an attic room, which he rented from Felix Mittwoch. On 30 November 1942, i.e. about two weeks after Pfeffer went into hiding,[2] Mittwoch wrote a message to the Immigration Department. He informed them that Pfeffer had told him he was going to hospital because of a kidney ailment. As Mittwoch did not see or hear from Pfeffer after that, he notified the department that Pfeffer had moved out.[3] Since Pfeffer remained registered for almost two more years, it looks like that information did not reach the Population Register. Based on this letter, the Immigration Department considered Pfeffer 'untraceable' as of 1 December 1942.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 4046: Vreemdelingenkaart Fritz Pfeffer; SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Fritz Pfeffer. Op de Vreemdelingenkaart staat als begindatum 17 juni 1940. 
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Version B, 17 november 1942, in: The Collected Works; [transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie (toegang 5225), inv. nr. 4046, inv. nr. 4046, Felilx Mittwoch aan Vreemdelingendienst, 30 november 1942.
  4. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam (toegang 5225), inv. nr. 4046, Vreemdelingenkaart F. Pfeffer.