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Sallie Springer

Sallie Springer was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Salomon Springer
  • Amsterdam, Nederland Jan. 22, 1929
  • Sobibor June 11, 1943

Salomon (Sallie) Springer was a son, the youngest of four children, of Barend Springer and Rebekka Swaalep.[1] His father sold shoes[2] and had worked his way up from shop assistant to owner of a shoe shop on Ten Katestraat. On 4 May 1942, he reported a burglary in his shop and theft of two pairs of men's shoes worth Dfl. 16.00.[3]

Marcus (Max) Springer, Sallie's ten-year-old older brother, was arrested in June 1940, possibly for his involvement in a major brawl. On 22 June 1940, a notice appeared in the newspaper Het Volk in which Max's parents and the wife of fellow detainee Jonas Knoop thanked the residents of Louis Bothastraat, De la Reijstraat and Krugerstraat for their sympathy concerning the ‘uncertain absence and happy homecoming’ of their son and husband respectively.[4] Eight months later, Max fell into the hands of the police again. On Sunday 23 February 1941, he was rounded up by the armed grüne Polizei and taken to Schoorl labour camp. On 27 February, along with hundreds of other young Jewish men, he was deported by train to Buchenwald concentration camp, where he perished on 22 April 1941.[5]

In 1941, Sallie was enrolled at the HBS secondary school at Mauritskade 58 in Amsterdam, where he was to start in the first year after the summer holidays.[6] Because Jewish students and teachers were forbidden to attend regular schools as of 1 September 1941, he had to transfer to the Jewish Lyceum. In school year 1941-1942, he was in class 1L2, which also included Anne Frank​​​​​​.[7] In her diary Anne characterizes him as being terribly dirty-minded and that there were all sorts of rumours circulating about him. Yet she liked him, because he was very funny.[8]

Sallie was incarcerated in camp Vught from 5 March to 6 June 1943.[9] On 6 and 7 June 1943, two trains with Jewish children from camp Vught, including Saly Springer, left for Westerbork,[10] then continued to Sobibor extermination camp on 8 June 1943.[11] On board this infamous Kindertransport were 3,017 people: men, women and children. They were murdered immediately upon arrival on 11 June 1943.[12]

None of the members of the Springer family survived the Nazi death camps.[13]

Source personal data.[1] Address: Louis Bothastraat 30 huis, Amsterdam.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Salomon Springer.
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Barend Springer.
  3. ^ SAA, Politierapporten '40-'45, archiefnummer 5225, inventarisnummer 6562, Rapportnummer: 124, Wijkbureau: Overtoom, 4 mei 1942, mutatie  16:45.
  4. ^ Dankbetuiging, Het Volk, 22 juni 1940. Zie ook: Dankbetuiging, Utrechts Volksblad, 24 juni 1940.
  5. ^ SAA, Themasites, De razzia's van 22/23-02-1941: Marcus Springer.
  6. ^ On 17 July 1941, headmaster C.G. Gerrits submitted a list of all Jewish students at his school. The list contained a total of 47 names, including that of Sallie Springer. Four days later, Gerrits sent a letter to add another Jewish student to the list: SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang: 5191), inv. nr. 7410: Opgave van de 3e Hogere Burgerschool met Vijfjarige Cursus, 17 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, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  9. ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Administratie Kamp Vught: DocID: 410087 (SALOMON SPRINGER).
  10. ^ Janneke de Moei, Joodse kinderen in het kamp Vught, Vught: Stichting Vriendenkring Nationaal Monument Vught, 1999, p. 75.
  11. ^ Arolsen Archives, Joodsche Raad Carthoteek, DocID: 130379362 (Salomon SPRINGER).
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Joods Monument: Barend Springer.
 
 

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