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Eva Meijer - Weijers

Eva Weijers knew Otto Frank from the pre-war Liberal Jewish Community.

Person

  • Eva Meijer - Weijers
  • Born on: Jan. 21, 1914
  • Born in: Wiesdorf, Duitsland
  • Died on: May 7, 2012
  • Died in: Ashland, OR, USA

Eva Weijers and her husband and children were good friends of Otto Frank. She was born in Germany. Because her parents were Dutch, she obtained Dutch nationality.[1] When she lived with her sister Katharina (Kitty) in Maastricht, she got to know a few German Jews who had emigrated.[2] After leaving for Amsterdam, she married one of them, Ernst Meijer, on 27 April 1938. Because of this she lost Dutch nationality and on 3 May 1938 she was summoned to surrender her Dutch passport.[3] Witnesses to the marriage were Eva's sister Katharina Weijers and Walter Lippmann.[4]

She signed a petition in May 1938 by which about forty members of the Liberal Jewish Congregation, including Otto Frank, supported the board in its application to be recognised as a church in the sense of the law.[5]

She had three sons: Frank Harry (1939), Paul James (1940) and Ronald Leon (1944). As a mixed marriage with half-Jewish children, the family survived the occupation. However, they were stateless.[6] On 2 November 1950, the Upper House of Parliament granted a naturalisation request.[7] A year later, the family moved to New York.[8]

The family of Eva Meijer-Weijers continued to correspond with Otto Frank for many years.[9]

Source personal data.[10] Addresses: Theodoor Schaepkensstraat 76, Maastricht; Beethovenstraat 74-III, Amsterdam (March ’38),[3] Slaakstraat 5-III (April ’38), Zuider Amstellaan 38 huis (July ’39), New York (’51).[11]

Footnotes

  1. ^ E-mail van Rohn Meijer aan Erika Prins (Anne Frank Stichting (AFS)), 17 mei 2012.
  2. ^ E-mail van Louise van Tuijl aan Gertjan Broek (AFS), 6 november 2017.
  3. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart E. Weijers. 
  4. ^ SAA, Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 6483: Register van huwelijken 1938, deel 15, p. 15v, akte no. 29.
  5. ^ Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Ministerie van Justitie, Dossiers Kerkgenootschappen, toegang 2.09.35.01, inv. nr. 68: petitie, 27 mei 1938.
  6. ^ Handelingen Tweede Kamer, 1949 – 1950, Bijlagen, Kamerstuknr. 1743, ondernr. 3.
  7. ^ Handelingen Eerste Kamer, 1950 – 1951, p. 109.
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart E.M. Meijer.
  9. ^ AFS, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_085: briefwisseling met het gezin E.M. Meijer, de oudste brief is van 25 november 1952, de jongste van 25 juli 1972. Mogelijk is deze correspondentie niet compleet. 
  10. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart E. Weijers; E-mail van Rohn Meijer aan Erika Prins (AFS), 17 mei 2012.
  11. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart E. Weijers.