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Henny Metz

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

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  • Henriëtte Rebecca Metz
  • Amsterdam, Nederland Aug. 10, 1929
  • Sobibor June 11, 1943

Klassenfoto van Henny Metz (tweede rij midden) op de Deurlooschool, Amsterdam, rond 1936.

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Rechthebbende(n) onvindbaar

Henriëtte (Henny) Rebecca Metz was a daughter of Louis Metz (1897-1942) and Eva Komkommer (1909-1943).[1] Her father was a conductor,[2] her mother a seamstress.[3] Following her divorce from Louis in March 1930, Henny's mother Eva married Berlin-born Martin Jungermann in September 1934.[3] From this marriage a son was born in July 1936: Jacques Hans.[4] In November 1940, the marriage of Henny's mother and stepfather also ended in divorce.[3]

Henny attended the Deurlooschool in de Dintelstraat in Amsterdam.[5] When she finished primary school in 1941, she was enrolled at the Gemeentelijk Lyceum voor Meisjes (Municipal Lyceum for Girls) at Reinier Vinkeleskade 62, where she was supposed to start in the first year after the summer holidays.[6] However, because Jewish students and teachers were banned from attending regular schools from 1 September 1941, she had to transfer to the Jewish Lyceum. In the schoolyear 1941-'42 she was in class 1L2, which also included Anne Frank. In school year 1942-'43 she was in class 2B.[7] In her diary Anne characterizes her as "a nice cheerful girl."[8] Together with Betty Bloemendal she gave Anne the book Lydia's moeilijkheden (Lydia's struggles) for her 13th birthday.[9]

From 17 March to 6 June 1943 Henny, her mother and halfbrother were incarcerated in Camp Vught. On 6 and 7 June  1943, two trains with Jewish children, including Henny, Jacques an Eva, left Camp Vught for Westerbork.[10] They then went on to Sobibor extermination camp on 8 June 1943. On board this infamous Kindertransport were 3017 people: men, women and children. They were murdered immediately upon arrival on 11 June 1943.[11]

Louis Metz, Henny's father, most probably had already perished in Auschwitz by the end of October 1942,[12] Henny's stepfather on 30 September 1942.[13]

Source personal data.[1] Address: Dintelstraat 33 I, Diamantstraat  19-I, Amsterdam.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amstwerdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Henriëtte Rebecca Metz.
  2. ^ Zie bijv. 'Grand-Théatre-Operette Gezelschap', Algemeen Handelsblad, 6 augustus 1931.
  3. a, b, c SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Eva Komkommer.
  4. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Jacques Hans Jungermann.
  5. ^ Digitaal Joods Monument: Klassenfoto Deurlooschool, 17 april 2013.
  6. ^ SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang: 5191), inv. nr. 7410, volgnr. 2802: Opgave van het Gemeentelijk Lyceum voor Meisjes, 16 juli 1941, Ingekomen lijsten van middelbare scholen met opgave van aanwezige Joodse leerlingen.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  9. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works. 
  10. ^ Janneke de Moei, Joodse kinderen in het kamp Vught, Vught: Stichting Vriendenkring Nationaal Monument Vught, 1999, p. 56; Joods Monument: Henriette Rebecca Metz.
  11. ^ Stichting Sobibor: Transport 15; In 2017, it was discovered that a boy from Camp Vught had escaped the Kindertransport and survived the war: Overlevende van beruchte kindertransporten bij herdenking kamp Vught, NOS Nieuws, 10 juni 2018.
  12. ^ Joods Monument: Louis Metz.
  13. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Martin Jungermann.

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Klassenfoto van de Deurlooschool, met daarop Henny Metz (tweede zittende rij, tweede van links) en Eva de Jong (tweede zittende rij, vierde van links), Amsterdam, rond 1936.

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