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Iet Swillens

Iet Swillens was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Sixth Montessori School.

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Vervaardiger: Johannes Machielis Bakels. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam
  • Rie Swillens
  • Amsterdam, Nederland July 12, 1929
  • Amstelveen, Nederland Sept. 1, 2001

Klassenfoto van Ietje Swillens op de Zesde Montessorischool, Amsterdam, 1938

Vervaardiger: Johannes Machielis Bakels. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam

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Rie (Iet, Ietje) Swilllens was a month older than Anne Frank. She lived with her family at Zuider Amstellaan, the wide boulevard close to Merwedeplein. Anne often walked to school with her and Hanneli Goslar.[1] Ietje was enrolled by Preparatory School No. 51 on 16 August 1933.[2] She then went on to the Sixth Montessori School and joined Anne in class 1B with Mr. Van Gelder. They remained classmates until the 1940-1941 school year.

Ietje had a friendship book in which Anne Frank wrote a verse on 3 May 1938.[3] Ietje also visited Anne's home often. She remembered Edith Frank as a somewhat “worrisome” woman. According to Ietje, this may have had something to do with what Anne told her once about her uncle Walter, a brother of Edith's, from whom the family had not heard for a long time.[3]

Ietje is also in Anne Frank's tenth-birthday photo taken on 12 June 1939 at Merwedeplein. Happily the girls pose for the photo: Lucie van Dijk, Anne Frank, Sanne Ledermann, Hannah Goslar, Juultje Ketellapper, Kitty Egyedi, Mary Bos, Ietje Swillens and Martha van den Berg.[4] While Anne went to the Jewish Lyceum in the late summer of 1941, non-Jewish Ietje went to the Municipal Lyceum for Girls, and the girls lost sight of each other.[3]

In 1947, Ietje passed her final exam at the Amsterdam Girl's Lyceum. She began studying psychology and obtained her bachelor's degree,[5] but broke off her studies after she married Johan Christiaan Helbing on 20 February 1954. They had three children together: two sons and a daughter.[6] Their youngest son Paul also went to the Sixth Montessorischool from 1969 to 1975.[7]

Ietje resumed her studies in the 1970s and, following graduation, worked as a vocational teacher.[8] Her marriage to Helbing ended in divorce in 1980.[6]

Rie Swillens passed away in 2001, 77 years old.

Source personal data.[9] Address: Zuider Amstellaan 184hs, Amsterdam.[6]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Rie Swillens, Enige herinneringen aan Anne Frank en haar familie, 15 juni 1993. Ietje Swillens is één van de vriendinnen van Anne Frank die wordt geportretteerd in: Janny van der Molen, Vergeet mij niet. Anne Franks vrienden en vriendinnen, Amsterdam: Ploegsma, 2022.
  2. ^ AFS, Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Montessori_I_001: Administratie leerlingen K.O. "de Blauwe Zeedistel", volgnummer 252.
  3. a, b, c AFS, Getuigenarchief, Rie Swillens, Enige herinneringen aan Anne Frank en haar familie, 15 juni 1993.
  4. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_AFrank_III_055.089: Groepsfoto op het Merwedeplein, 12 juni 1939.
  5. ^ "Examens", De Telegraaf, 8 juli 1950.
  6. a, b, c SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart R. Swillens.
  7. ^ Bas Moll e.a. (red.), 75 jaar en springlevend: 6e Montessorischool Anne Frank 1932-2007, Amsterdam: Zesde Montessorischool, 2008, p. 58.
  8. ^ Melissa Müller, Anne Frank: de biografie, 5e herz. druk, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2013, p. 389.
  9. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiekaart Rie Swillens; Online Familieberichten: Iet Swillens.

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