Elhoek
Furniture upholstery firm 'Elhoek' was located at Prinsengracht 261, next to Otto Frank's premises at Prinsengracht 263.
Address: Prinsengracht 261, Amsterdam.[1]
The company was located in the neighbouring building at Prinsengracht 263. Elhoek was also a leather goods manufacturer.[2] The name was a combination of the names of business partners Van Elburg and Hoekstra. The workshops were on the second and third floors. When the weather was nice, the staff sometimes ate on the roof at lunchtime. They sometimes heard voices and therefore knew that there were people in the Secret Annex. However, they did not realize that these were people in hiding and they thought that the part of the building belonged to the Keg Tea and Coffee company.[3]
Hendrik Johan van Elburg, one of the business partners, reported that intruders had stolen an amount of six hundred guilders and a typewriter from the company during the night of 7-8 April 1943.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Bevolkingsregister, woningkaarten, inv. nr. 283: Woningkaart Prinsengracht 261. Referred to by Anne as furniture-making shop. Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 11 July 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Rijksbureau voor Huiden en Leder, Lijst met namen en adressen der bij het Rijksbureau voor Huiden en Leder ingeschreven (…), Doetinchem: Misset, 1941, p. 89.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Pels, H.: Mededeling H. Pels, mei 1995.
- ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 7013: Rapport bureau Warmoesstraat, 8-9 april 1943, 17.18 uur.