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Jan Wiegel

Jan Wiegel was one of the class mates of Anne Frank at Sixth Montessori School.

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Vervaardiger: Johannes Machielis Bakels. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam
  • Jan Wiegel
  • Born on: Dec. 22, 1929
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: Dec. 17, 1994
  • Died in: 's-Graveland, Nederland

Klassenfoto van Jan Wiegel op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, 1935

Vervaardiger: Johannes Machielis Bakels. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam

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Jan Wiegel was a son of Johannes Wiegel and Alida Helena van Moorsel.[1] His father was an office clerk.[2] Jan Wiegel grew up in Amsterdam's Rivierenbuurt district. He was entered in the register of Prepatory School No. 51 on 2 October 1933.[3] He was in kindergarten with Anne and in class 5B of Sixth Montessori School. In the 1935 preschool photo Jan is de boy with small boy with glasses, second to the left of the teacher in the white blouse.[4]

After Sixth Montessori School, Wiegel attenede the Montessori Lyceum.[5] Following that he studied political and social sciences in Amsterdam, worked as a screen writer and produced over thirty documentay films, including De klas (The class, 1969), a film about the preschool class he and Anne Frank were in. After the war it turned out that ten out of the thirtytwo children had perished in the concentration camps.[6]

With Rivierenbuurt - het gelijk van Berlage (Rivierenbuurt - Berlage was right, 1995), a posthumously released documentary, Wiegel produced a film about the neighbourhood he grew up in, about the atmosphere and events in the 1930s, the first residents and the arrival of Jewish refugees from Germany, the years of German occupation and the razzias that took place in this district.[7] 

Jan Wiegel passed away in 1994, a few days before his 66th birthday. During the 1995 Dutch Film Festival, he was commmorated with a retrospective of his films.[8]

Source personal data.[9] Addresses: Geleenstraat 7-III, Keizersgracht 824hs (1954); Soest (1961), Gelermalsen (1970); Singel 512 (1977); 's-Graveland (1985).[10]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Jan Wiegel.
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Johannes Wiegel.
  3. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Montessori_I_001: Administratie leerlingen K.O. "de Blauwe Zeedistel", volgnummer 299.
  4. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_AFrank_III_055.067: Leerlingen uit de klas van Anne Frank op de Zesde Montessorischool, Amsterdam, 1935.
  5. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Montessori_I_002: Inschrijvingsboek voor leerlingen van de Zesde Montessorischool, 29 augustus 1932 tot en met 6 april 1959, volgnummer 206.
  6. ^ Nederlands Film Festival: De klas.
  7. ^ Nederlands Film Festival: Rivierenbuurt - het gelijk van Berlage.
  8. ^ Nederlands Film Festival: Jan Wiegel.
  9. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Jan Wiegel; Cineast Jan Wiegel (64) overleden, NRC, 20 december 1994.
  10. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Jan Wiegel.

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Klassenfoto van Anne op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, 1935

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