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Eefje de Jong

Eefje de Jong was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

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  • Eva Hansje Elly de Jong
  • Eindhoven, Nederland July 8, 1929
  • Sobibor June 11, 1943

Klassenfoto van Eva de Jong (tweede rij midden) op de Deurlooschool, Amsterdam, rond 1936.

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Eva (Eefje) de Jong was a daughter of Salomon (Jack) de Jong (1903-1978)[1] and Schoontje de Vries (1906-1943).[2] Eefje's parents divorced on 14 February 1938, after her father had emigrated to the United States a few days earlier, on 8 February, arriving in New York City on 18 February.[3] There he was naturalised as a citizen in 1940 and took the name Jack.[4] In 1940 her mother remarried a man with the same name as her first husband: Salomon de Jong (1904-1944).[5]

Eefje attended the Deurlooschool in de Dintelstraat in Amsterdam.[6] When she finished primary school in 1941, she was enrolled at the Gemeentelijk Lyceum voor Meisjes (Municipal Lyceum for Girls) at Reinier Vinkeleskade 62, where she was supposed to start in the first year after the summer holidays.[7] However, because Jewish students and teachers were banned from attending regular schools from 1 September 1941, she had to transfer to the Jewish Lyceum. In the schoolyear 1941-'42 she was in class 1L2, which also included Anne Frank. In school year 1942-'43 she was in class 2B.[8] Anne thinks of her "as a wonderful girl (...). She is only twelve years old, but is quite a lady."[9] Eefje also attended Anne's birthday party on Sunday, 14 June 1942 and, along with Nanette van Praag Sigaar and Danka Zajde, gave her the book Goedemorgen, melkboer (Good morning, milk man) as a present.[10]

On 6 and 7 June  1943, two trains with Jewish children and their parents left Camp Vught for Westerbork.[11] Among them were Eefje de Jong, her mother and stepfather Salomon de Jong (1904-1944).[12] Eefje and her mother went on to Sobibor extermination camp on 8 June 1943. On board this infamous Kindertransport were 3017 people: men, women and children. They were murdered immediately upon arrival on 11 June 1943.[13] A few years ago, it turned out that someone miraculously had managed escaped the cruel fate of the children from Camp Vught.[14] Eefje's stepfather remained in Westerbork until he was deported to Auschwitz on 23 March 1944. He was probably murdered immediately upon arrival.[15]

Source personal data.[16] Address: Beethovenstraat 158hs, Amsterdam (1938); Sloestraat 15 huis (1940).[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Digitaal Joods Monument: Salomon (Jack) de Jong.
  2. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Eva Hansje Elly de Jong.
  3. ^ New York City, New York, United States documenten," FamilySearch, afbeelding 272 van 795; United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Afbeeldingsgroepsnummer: 004876001: Passenger and Crew List, 18 January 1938.
  4. ^ New York, United States documenten, afbeeldingen, FamilySearch, afbeelding 859 van 1975; Federal Archives and Records Center (Bayonne, New Jersey), United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Northeast Region. Afbeeldingsgroepsnummer: 007313778. Petitions for naturalization from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York: Salomon Jack de Jong.
  5. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Schoontje de Vries; Archiefkaart Salomon de Jong (1904).
  6. ^ Digitaal Joods Monument: Klassenfoto Deurlooschool, 17 april 2013.
  7. ^ SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang: 5191), inv. nr. 7410, volgnr. 2802: Opgave van het Gemeentelijk Lyceum voor Meisjes, 16 juli 1941, Ingekomen lijsten van middelbare scholen met opgave van aanwezige Joodse leerlingen.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  10. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works.
  11. ^ Janneke de Moei, Joodse kinderen in het kamp Vught, Vught: Stichting Vriendenkring Nationaal Monument Vught, 1999, p. 41.
  12. ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130313051 (Eva H E DE JONG); DocID: 130313790 (Schoontje DE JONG DE VRIES); DocID: 130313735 (Salomon DE JONG).
  13. ^ Stichting Sobibor: Transport 15.
  14. ^ Overlevende van beruchte kindertransporten bij herdenking kamp Vught, NOS Nieuws, 10 juni 2018.
  15. ^ Arolsen Archives, List of names of Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in the Netherlands 1941 - 1945, DocID: 5149935.
  16. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Eva Hansje Elly de Jong; Joods Monument: Eva Hansje Elly de Jong.

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Klassenfoto van de Deurlooschool, met daarop Henny Metz (tweede zittende rij, tweede van links) en Eva de Jong (tweede zittende rij, vierde van links), Amsterdam, rond 1936.

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