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Henny Metz

Henny Metz was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Henriette Rebecca Metz
  • Born on: Aug. 10, 1929
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: June 11, 1943
  • Died in: Sobibor

Henriette Rebecca (Henny) Metz was in class 1L2 of the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam in the school year 1941-1942 and in class 2B in 1942-1943.[1] In her diary Anne characterizes her as  "a nice cheerful girl."[2] Together with Beppy Bloemendal she gave Anne the book Lydia's moeilijkheden (Lydia's stuggles) for her 13th birthday.[3]

In June 1943 she was deported with a children's transport from Vught to Westerbork.[4]

Source personal data.[5] Address: Dintelstraat 33 I, Amsterdam.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Archief 181e (W.S.H. Elte), inv. nr. 2f: Absentenregister klas 1LII Joods Lyceum, 1 maart – 17 juli 1942; Dienke Hondius, Absent: herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam 1941-1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 269-270; Wikipedia: Klas van Anne Frank.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works. 
  4. ^ J. de Moei, Joodse kinderen in het kamp Vught, Vught: Stichting Vriendenkring Nationaal Monument Vught, 1999, p. 56; Joods Monument: Henriette Rebecca Metz.
  5. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart H.R. Metz.