Margot Frank at the Jekerschool
Soon after arriving in the Netherlands Margot Frank went to the 2nd grade of the Jeker school.
Margot Frank went to the second grade of the Jeker school from 4 January 1934, a few days after her arrival in the Netherlands.[1] She received her first report card on 15 February, one day before her eighth birthday.[2] In July her mother wrote to Gertrud Naumann, a girl who lived next door to them in Frankfurt am Main: 'Margot kommt in der Schule gut mit, und geht mit ins 3. Schuljahr, sie spricht jetzt gut holländisch'.[3]
In school year 1935-1936 Margot was in fourth grade. That year she went on a school trip to the Pyramid of Austerlitz. A photo taken there shows about forty children, including Margot Frank, Barbara Ledermann and Evelyn Werthauer.[4] During the same school year, a 'Rouline' photo of all the pupils and teachers was taken at the school.[5] There is also a photo preserved from this time in which Margot is standing with a text board saying: 'Memento of my school days 1936'.[6]
At the start of Margot's last school year the city council renamed the school Vondelschool.[7] Halfway through that school year Edith Frank wrote to Gertrud Naumann: 'Margot hat viele Aufgaben und muss sich zur Prüfung für die höhere Schule vorbereiten'.[8]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_getuigen_I_084: Edith Frank aan Gertrud Naumann, omstreeks kerstmis 1933.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_MFrank_I_026: Verslag aangaande Margot Frank, leerling der Openbare Lagere School, Gen. Jekerschool te Amsterdam. Schooljaar 1933-1934.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_getuigen_I_089: kaart, Edith Frank aan Gertrud Naumann, juli 1934.
- ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, De Levita: namenlijst bij de foto door David de Levita.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code B_Getuigen_III_097: Ingelijste kopie van een schoolfoto van alle klassen van de Jekerschool te Amsterdam, gemaakt in 1935. Een Roulinefoto wordt gemaakt met een zwenkende camera, waardoor grote groepen op één - brede - foto passen.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_MFrank_III_030: Foto van Margot Frank voor de deuren van de Jekerschool.
- ^ "Weer een Vondelschool", De Maasbode, 31 oktober 1937, ochtendeditie, p. 3.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg code A_getuigen_I_116: Edith Frank aan Gertrud Naumann, 18 januari 1938.