Bijenkorf
The Bijenkorf is a large department store in Amsterdam.
De Bijenkorf in Amsterdam, april 1940
Vervaardiger onbekend. Stadsarchief Amsterdam Copyright: Publiek domein
Located on the Damrak in Amsterdam.
The Bijenkorf developed from a small haberdashery shop on Nieuwendijk into a large department store on Damrak.[1] At the end of November and the beginning of December 1938, the Bijenkorf was the target of anti-Semitic actions by National Socialist youths.[2] Tonny Ahlers was also involved.[3] In June 1940, Dutch National Socialists smashed several shop windows of the Bijenkorf.[4] Bep Voskuijl bought new skirts for Margot and Anne Frank in the Bijenkorf. 'The material is tatty, just like sacking', Anne writes.[5]
Rachel Amerongen - Frankfoorder, one of the women Anne Frank met in Camp Westerbork, worked in the Bijenkorf from 1928 to 1941.[6]
Footnotes
- ^ See: Wikipedia: De Bijenkorf.
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 7001: Rapporten bureau Warmoesstraat, 28 november (mut. 9.30 v.m.) en 1 december 1938 (mut. 9.45 n.m.).
- ^ Gertjan Broek, Weerkorpsen: extreemrechtse strijdgroepen in Amsterdam, 1923-1942. (Ph.D. thesis Universiteit van Amsterdam 2014, p. 239-255.
- ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Februaristaking 1941, inv. nr. 7a: Afschrift uit p.v.b. 303, 6 juni 1940.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 1 October 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Willy Lindwer, De laatste zeven maanden. Vrouwen in het spoor van Anne Frank, Hilversum: Gooi & Sticht, 1988, p. 111.