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Emile Bonewit

Emile Bonewit was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Emanuel Bonewit
  • Amsterdam, Nederland May 5, 1927
  • Sobibor April 2, 1943

Emanuel (Emile) Bonewit was een zoon van Philip Bonewit (1901-1943) en Naatje Slösser (1899-1943).[1] He was an only child. His father was a sales representative in raw materials for bakeries.[2]

In 1941, Emile 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.[3] 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​​​​​​. He was in class 2B in 1942-1943.[4]  He was a classmate of Anne Frank. Anne writes about him in her diary: "He is a bit dull."[5] According to his personal card in the population register, he worked as a clerk at a wholesale food store.[1]

Together with his parents, Emile was deported from Westerbork to Sobibor extermination camp on 30 March 1943, where they were murdered immediately upon arrival on 2 April 1943.[6] Of the 1255 men, women and children aboard this fifth transport to Sobibor, none would survive.[7]

Source personal data.[1] Adres: Kraaipanstraat 57hs.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c, d Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Emanuel Bonewit.
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Philip Bonewit.
  3. ^ 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 Emile Bonewit. 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 17 juli 1941, Ingekomen lijsten van middelbare scholen met opgave van aanwezige Joodse leerlingen.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  6. ^ Joods Monument: Emanuel Bonewit; Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130264947 (Emanuel BONEWIT); Arolsen Archives, List of names of Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in the Netherlands 1941-1945, DocID: 5147469.
  7. ^ Stichting Sobibor: Transport 5.

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