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Hetty Last

Hetty Last was a classmate of Margot Frank at the Municipal Lyceum for Girls in Amsterdam.

Person

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam
  • Henriëtte Martine Last
  • Born on: Feb. 9, 1926
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: Feb. 8, 2023
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Uitsnede van een klassenfoto van Hetty Last, Amsterdam, mei 1941.

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam

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Hetty Last was a daughter of Herman Maarten Last (1895-1975) and Josephine Henriette Caroline Last-Bouman (1904). She had a younger sister Ingrid Mary Last (1937).[1] Hetty grew up in a liberal Christian family. She attended the Amsterdam Montessori School and then the First Montessori School in Amsterdam.[2]

After completing primary school, Hetty went to the Municipal Lyceum for Girls. She started the first school year 1938-'39 in the gymnasium class. In the second year 1939-'40, she made the switch to HBS and then joined Margot Frank in class 2A.[3] That year they were taught English by Miss Von der Möhlen, according to Hetty the 'favourite teacher of the whole school'.[4] Von der Möhlen had her students write English-language letters to students abroad. Margot wrote a letter to Betty Ann Wagner from Danville (Iowa) in the United States. Her sister Anne Frank then wrote a letter to Betty's sister Juanita Wagner.[5] Hetty got in touch with Maxine Myers (1926-2022), who was also from Danville and was at school with the Wagner sisters. After the war, she kept in touch with her pen pal.[6]

In the spring of 1941, Hetty started playing tennis with friends at Tennisvereniging Temminck on Zuidelijke Wandelweg in Amsterdam. Hetty remembers that she was the initiator of this; a court was rented for a whole group of girls and whoever wanted could join in.[7] Margot and other classmates from the Municipal Lyceum for Girls also participated.[8]

In May 1941, towards the end of the third school year, a class photo was taken of Hetty and Margot's class in front of the entrance to the Municipal Lyceum for Girls.[9] As a result of anti-Jewish measures introduced by the Nazi occupiers, all Jewish students were transferred to separate Jewish schools at the start of the next school year in September 1941. From Hetty's class, Margot Frank and Jetteke Frijda were sent to the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam.[10] Hetty remembers that after this, Margot would occasionally stop by the bicycle shed at the Girls' Lyceum to talk to her former classmates.[11]

In 1944, Hetty graduated from the HBS.[12] Because of the Hunger Winter, she spent the last months of the war in Friesland.[13]

Source personal data.[14] Addresses: Cornelis Krusemanstraat 58, Amsterdam; Pieter Lastmankade 34-II

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238), inv. nr. 1600: Archiefkaart Herman Maarten Last; toegangsnummer 30408), inv. nr. 73: Archiefkaart Henriette Caroline Bouman; (toegangsnummer 30238), inv. nr. 1600: Archiefkaart Ingrid Mary Last.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Last, Hetty, transcriptie interview Hetty Last door Erika Prins, 16 november 2011, p. 2.
  3. ^ SAA, Gerrit van der Veen Scholengemeenschap en rechtsvoorgangers, toegang 623, inv. nr. 421: rapportenregisters klas 2A, 1939-'40.
  4. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Last, Hetty, transcriptie interview Hetty Last door Erika Prins, 16 november 2011, p. 12-15.
  5. ^ AFS, Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code Extern.00052: Copy of letter from Margot Frank to Betty Ann Wagner, 27 april 1940; Extern.00067: Copy of letter from Anne Frank to Juanita Wagner, 29 april 1940. The original letters are kept in the archives of the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, United States.
  6. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, documentatie Last, Danville Historical Society Newsletter, maart 2012; zie: "Official obituary of Maxine McNeil", Lunning Funeral Chapel,  (geraadpleegd op 7 maart 2024).
  7. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Last, Hetty, transcriptie interview Hetty Last door Erika Prins, 16 november 2011, p. 10-11.
  8. ^ There is a picture showing Margot posing with some friends on the tennis court. Hetty is not in this photo: AFS, AFC, reg. code A_MFrank_III_035.
  9. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_MFrank_III_014.
  10. ^ In Juli 1941 headmistress M.J. Freie had to hand over a list to the Central Pupil Enrolment Office containing the names of all Jewish pupils: SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs, inv. nr. 7410: Opgave 16 juli 1941 (kopie bij: AFS, afd. Collecties, Collectie in handen van derden, Instellingen Nederland). 
  11. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Last, Hetty, transcriptie interview Hetty Last door Erika Prins, 16 november 2011, p. 8.
  12. ^ Louise C. Pont et al (red.), Gedenkboek ter gelegenheid van het 25-jarig bestaan van het Gemeentelijk Lyceum voor Meisjes te Amsterdam en het afscheid van Dr Margrita J. Freie als rectrix van deze school, Amsterdam, 1950, p. 109.
  13. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Last, Hetty, transcriptie interview Hetty Last door Erika Prins, 16 november 2011, p. 16.
  14. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238), inv. nr. 491: Archiefkaart Henriëtte Martine Last; AFS, Getuigenarchief, documentatie Last, Overlijdensbericht Hetty Last, 8 februari 2023.

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Klassenfoto van Margot Frank op het Gemeentelijk Lyceum voor Meisjes, Amsterdam, mei 1941

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