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Johannes and Johanna Kleiman

According to Johannes Kleiman, Anne Frank regularly asked about his daughter.

Subject

Johannes Kleiman's daughter Johanna (Jopie) was born in Amsterdam on 9 August 1927. On 27 May 1948, she married J.C. van den Broek.[1] Her husband died in autumn 2009.[2] The Kleiman family, consisting of Johannes (Jo), wife Johanna (Jo, later Joke) and daughter Johanna (Jopie, Jo), was also known as: Jo, Jo and Jo.[3]

According to Kleiman, Anne regularly asked about his daughter: "Even about my youngest daughter, whom Anne hardly knew, she always wanted to hear everything, whether she was already out of school, already working, already had a boyfriend, whether she played in a nice hockey club, whether there were often nice parties (...).'"[4] Kleiman brought two of his daughter's books for Anne: Else's baantjes ('Else's jobs') and Riek, de kwajongen ('Riek, the bad boy'). He told Jopie that they were for a sister of Bep Voskuijl.[5]

Mrs Kleiman occasionally visited the Secret Annex and told her that Jopie was on a hockey team with Jacqueline van Maarsen.[6] These stories made Anne all the more aware of her own limitations: "(...) and 'in the depths of despair' when, for example, Mrs. Kleiman comes by and talks about Jopie's hockey club, canoe trips, school plays and afternoon teas with friends. I don't think I'm jealous of Jopie, but I long to have a really good time for once and to laugh so hard it hurts."[7]

Anne simply called Jopie Keiman Jopie in the A and B versions. In the C version, Otto Frank continued Anne's pseudonym habit. He gave Jacqueline van Maarsen the name Jopie and Jopie Kleiman the name Corry.[8]

Johanna Kleiman went with her mother to the screening (premiere?) of the American film adaptation of the diary by George Stevens.[9] This was almost three months after her father's death. Following Otto Frank's death, she wrote a letter of condolence to Fritzi Frank.[10]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Johannes Kleiman.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief (digitaal), Van den Broek – Kleiman: Telefoongesprek met Erika Prins, 11 juni 2010.
  3. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Roozendaal: Telefoongesprek Gertjan Broek met Fried Roozendaal, 15 december 2008.
  4. ^ AFS, Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_079: Herinneringen van Johannes Kleiman aan Anne Frank (ongedateerd).
  5. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 10 October 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the DuUtch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. The first book is by Heleen Bosloper-Harting, the second by 'Nanda' (= Fernanda M.B. Trautwein).
  6. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 31 May 1944, in: The Collected Works.
  7. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 24 December 1943, in: The Collected Works.
  8. ^ Anne Frank, Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944, Amsterdam: Contact, 1947, p. 119.
  9. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_079: J. Reuman-Kleiman aan Otto Frank, 20 april 1959.
  10. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_065: J. van den Broek-Kleiman aan Fritzi Frank, 21 augustus 1980.