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Henk van Beusekom

Henk van Beusekom worked for Otto Frank and Opekta for several years.

Person

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  • Jan Hendrik Gerrit van Beusekom
  • Born on: June 14, 1919
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: Dec. 29, 2004
  • Died in: Uithoorn, Nederland

Foto van Miep Gies, Otto Frank en Henk van Beusekom op het kantoor van Opekta, aan Singel 400, Amsterdam, september 1936.

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Henk van Beusekom was born on 14 June 1919 as the son of Jan Hendrik Gerrit van Beusekom (16 July 1883) and Gesina Hendrika Westerhof (5 June 1891). He had an older sister Gesina Wilhelmina Maria van Beusekom (21 March 1913).[1]

Henk was employed by Otto Frank on 16 October 1933 as the youngest office clerk.[2] Untill 7 January 1938 he worked at the Nederlandsche Opekta Maatschappij. He was let go due to unfavourable economic conditions.[3] He then worked at the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Cantonal Court.[2]

On 8 March 1944, Anne wrote that Mrs Van Pels asked Bep why she had not married Henk and advised her to wait until he was divorced again. Henk van Beusekom married Aagje Pronk on 9 March 1944.[4] The marriage was dissolved in 1949; he married Hermina Berendina Derks on 5 September 1953.[5] She died on 8 June 2008 at the age of 86.

Van Beusekom said in 1994 that Bep Voskuijl was in love with him at the time. However, it was not mutual.[2] This is in line with Mrs Van Pels' remarks to Bep at the time of Henk's first wedding.[6]

Source personal data.[4] Addresses: Ferdinand Bolstraat 120 huis, Amsterdam; 81 I (’42).[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart J.H.G. van Beusekom sr. (1883), inv. nr. 109.
  2. a, b, c AFS, Getuigenarchief, Beusekom, Henk van: Interview met Henk van Beusekom door Dineke Stam en Rian Verhoeven, september 1994.
  3. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code A_Opekta_I_011: Getuigschrift voor de "Heer J.H.G. V. Beusekom": 3 januari 1938.
  4. a, b Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Den Haag, Centraal archief van overledenen: Persoonskaart J.H.G. van Beusekom.
  5. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, archiefkaarten, toegang 30238, inv. nr. 1296: archiefkaart Jan Hendrik Gerrit van Beusekom.
  6. ^ Anne Frank, Version A, 8 and 10 March 1944, in: The Collected Works; [transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty; transl. from the German language by Kirsten Warner and transl. from the Dutch language by Nancy Forest-Flier]. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4729-6491-5.
  7. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, archiefkaarten, toegang 30238, inv. nr. 1296: archiefkaart Jan Hendrik Gerrit van Beusekom; Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Den Haag, Centraal archief van overledenen: Persoonskaart J.H.G. van Beusekom.