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Lena Südfeldt

Lena Südfeldt was a teacher at the Sixth Montessori School.

Person

  • Helena Elisabeth Südfeldt
  • Born on: July 17, 1901
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Helena (Lena) Südfeldt worked as a primary school teacher from 1921. From 25 May 1936 she taught at the Sixth Montessori School. In July of that year she passed the course theory and practice of Montessori education. Eight years later, on 26 May 1944, she became head of the newly founded Eighth Montessori School.[1]

In the summer of 1941, she received an album of photos and rhymes as a farewell gift from the sixth graders.[2] These were:

  • Frederika de Leeuw (1929 – 1943)
  • Leny Mouwes (1929 – 1943)
  • Freddy Elte (1929 – 1942)
  • Martha van den Berg (1929 – 2013)
  • Mary Distelbrink (1928 - ?)
  • Renée Weber (1929)
  • Elkan Sanders (1929 – 1943)
  • Leo Slager (1928 – 1943)
  • Albert de Mesquita (1930)
  • Sally Kimmel (1928)
  • Appie Reiner (1929)
  • Jacob Pruijm (1928 - ?)
  • Maurits Mossel (1929 – 1942)

Her pupil Albert de Mesquita went through a series of hiding addresses and also stayed at her house on Roelof Hartstraat for three months.[3]

Bron persoonsgegevens.[4] Addresses: Roelof Hartstraat 34-III, Amsterdam; Meander 969, Amstelveen (1970).[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang 5191), inv. nr. 10022: Staat van dienst en stamkaart H.E. Südfeldt.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code B_Montessorischool_I_0001.
  3. ^ AFS, Getuigenverhalen I: Interview Albert Gomes de Mesquita door David de Jongh en Teresien da Silva, Eindhoven, 1 april 2009, tijdcode 16:00.03.
  4. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 302388): Archiefkaart H.E. Südfeldt.