Delphi Tearoom
Delphi was a lunchroom and ice cream parlor that was only accessible to Jews from 1941.
Advertentie in het Joodsch Weekblad, 19 december 1941
www.delpher.nl Copyright: Status onduidelijk.
Address: Daniël Willinkplein 1, Amsterdam.[1]
Delphi was a lunchroom and ice cream parlor that was only accessible to Jews from 1941.[2] Anne Frank went there with her friends for ice cream.[3]
On 25 May 1936, the business was registered as a partnership between Hugo Rosenthal and Siegfried Wechsler. Rosenthal got out on 3 November 1936; Wechsler on 26 January 1940. The new owner was Mozes Zilversmit. As part of the anti-Jewish measures, the case was closed on 3 January 1944.[4]
The anti-Semitic magazine De Misthoorn wrote an article about Zilversmit and Delphi, stating how unpleasant it was 'to see all those stars licking ice'.[5]
Footnotes
- ^ Bianca Stigter, Atlas van een bezette stad: Amsterdam 1940-1945, Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2019, p. 439. After the war, Daniël Willinkplein was renamed Victorieplein.
- ^ Het Joodsche Weekblad, 19 December 1941, p. 18.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 20 June 1942 (2nd), in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem, Handelsregister Amsterdam: Kamer van Koophandel Amsterdam (toegang 448), inv. nr. 1248, dossier 48365.
- ^ "Joodsche viezigheden", De Misthoorn, 6 June 1942.