Gien Amende - Zaaiman
The Amende family was friends with Miep and Jan Gies.
Person
Gien Zaaiman married Hendricus Amende on 28 July 1909 in Amsterdam.[1] She ran a boarding house on Amsteldijk and later on Rijnstraat; Jan Gies had lived there after getting an official separation from his first wife.[2] There is a photo of the kitchen of the guest house she ran at Amsteldijk 11. In the photo are Gien Amende, her daughter Jo Bunjes-Amende, an unknown woman and Thor, the sheepdog of the Amende family.[3] Thor is the only animal named in the diary who appears in a photo.[4] There is also a photo of Mr and Mrs Amende with their daughter and son-in-law.
The Frank family placed a quantity of goods in storage with the Amende family during the period in hiding.[5]
Source personal data.[1] Addresses: Amsteldijk 11 bovenhuis, Amsterdam; Rijnstraat 238 III (December 1938).[1]
Footnotes
- a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Lammegien Zaaiman.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Bunjes: Interview met Joke en Martin Bunjes, 28 mei 2009.
- ^ AFS, Foto's Getuigenarchief, Bunjes-Amende, Amsteldijk 11 voorkant.
- ^ Anne refers to him as Tor. Anne Frank, Version A, 24 January 1944, in: The Collected Works; [transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 3 February 1944, in: The Collected Works.
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Thor, hond van de familie Bunjes - Amende.
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Thor aan de voeten van mevrouw Bunjes-Amende, geheel rechts Gien Amende-Zaaiman, omstreeks 1937-38.
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