Ernst Katz
Ernst Katz rented a room from the Frank family on Merwedeplein.
Ernst Katz rented a room with the Frank family on Merwedeplein for some time.[1] By profession, he was a tobacco merchant.[2] Describing the period when he rented a room from the Frank family, Anne writes: "This gentleman actually gave us more pleasure than trouble. Every Sunday he brought chocolate for the children and cigarettes for the adults, and more than once he took us all to the cinema. He stayed with us for a year and a half, then moved into his own flat, together with his mother and sister. Later, he used to drop by from time to time and swear that he'd never had such a good time as he'd had with us."[3] Margot calls him Kätzchen in a letter to her grandmother in Switzerland.[4]
On 18 March 1940, he was stripped of his deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit.[5] In November 1941, he was admitted to Pavilion III, the psychiatric ward of the Wilhelmina Hospital.[2]
Source personal data.[6] Addresses: Merwedeplein 37 II, Amsterdam (June ’38); Zuider Amstellaan 32 II (Oct. ’39).[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 14 and 30 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart E. Katz.
- ^ Anne Frank, Tales and events from the Secret Annex, "Lodgers or Tenants", 13 October 1943, in: The Collected Works.
- ^ Anne Frank Fonds, Bazel, Frank en Elias Familiearchief (FEFA), AlF_corr_17_000, Brief van Margot Frank aan Alice Frank-Stern, 18 december 1938.
- ^ Hans Georg Lehmann & Michael Hepp (Einl.), Die Ausbürgerung deutscher Staatsangehöriger 1933 – 45 nach den im Reichsanzeiger veröffentlichten Listen. Band 1. Listen in chronologischer Reihenfolge, München: Saur, 1985, p. 295.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart E. Katz; Joods Monument: Ernst Katz.