Tokita Product Company
Tokita was a preserving and canning factory.
Address: Eerste Weteringdwarsstraat 16, Amsterdam.[1]
Since 1934, S.J. Roozendaal Tokita managed this cannery and preserving factory, where pickles, sauces, and canned fish, chicken, rabbit and the like were produced.[2] Commercial intelligence from the Van der Graaf company shows that Tokita wanted to establish business ties with Pectacon. Van der Graaf was not entirely positive about Roozendaal and advised to ensure good guarantees.[3]
In an interview Henk van Beusekom claims that there was collaboration with a food factory in the Weteringstraat area in the late 1930s.[3] Bep Voskuijl also knew Tokita employees.[4]
During the war years, Tokita's activities came to an end. Supplies, vehicles and machinery became dispersed.[5] Anne Frank writes in her diary that Mr. Rozendaal from Tokita was arrested because he did not have a 'J' in his passport.[6]
Footnotes
- ^ Algemeen Adresboek der stad Amsterdam. 85ste jaargang, 1938-1939, Amsterdam: Ellerman, Harms & Co., p. 2328.
- ^ Forumlier van Vander Graaf & Co's Sneldienst, 5 oktober 1938 en diverse advertenties, o.a. in Het Vaderland, 21 november 1941 (avondeditie).
- a, b Formulier van Van der Graaf & Co’s Sneldienst, 5 oktober 1938.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 26 October 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Nederlands Beheersinstituut): Beheersdossiers, nummer toegang 2.09.16, inv. nr. 158508: Verklaring J. Engels, 28 januari 1947.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A , 6 October 1942, in: The Collected Works.