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Martha van den Berg

Martha van den Berg was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Sixth Montessori School.

Person

Foto John (Lion) Blits, 1912-1978
  • Martha van den Berg
  • Born on: Jan. 29, 1929
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: July 19, 2013
  • Died in: Voorburg, Nederland

Martha van den Berg, 1938

Foto John (Lion) Blits, 1912-1978

Status onduidelijk

Martha van den Berg grew up with an older brother and two younger sisters.[1] She attended the Sixth Montessori School from 16 August 1935 to 12 July 1941.[2] In 1939, Martha attended Anne Frank's tenth birthday party.[3] She is in a photo taken on 12 June 1939 on Merwedeplein, together with Anne, Kitty Egyedi, Mary Bos, Iet Swillens, Lucie van Dijk, Hanneli Goslar, Juultje Ketellapper and Sanne Ledermann.[4] While Anne went to the Jewish Lyceum in the late summer of 1941, non-Jewish Martha went to the Municipal Lyceum for Girls, and the girls lost sight of each other.[5]

Martha and her family lived in Olympia Square until the end of the war. There they got through the Hunger Winter. When she was at home during the war years because her sister had diphtheria, her physics teacher gave her a popular science book on physics. This encouraged her to study physics.[6] On 14 January 1956 she married chemist Pieter Schenck,[7] whom she had met as a student. They had two sons and eight grandchildren. Martha worked for several years as a physics teacher at a lyceum and for some time at the Observatory in Leiden.[6]

Source personal data.[8]  Address: Westerscheldeplein 15hs, Amsterdam.[9]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart F. van den Berg (1894).
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Montessorischool_I_001: Leerlingenregister Zesde Montessorischool, volgnr. 106.
  3. ^ Martha van den Berg is one of Anne Frank's friends portrayed in: Janny van der Molen, Vergeet mij niet. Anne Franks vrienden en vriendinnen, Amsterdam: Ploegsma, 2022.
  4. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_AFrank_III_055.089: Foto met bijschrift in album ‘Blanco Electro Monster Huishoudboek’.
  5. ^ Van der Molen, Vergeet mij niet, p. 193.
  6. a, b Van der Molen, Vergeet mij niet, p. -282-283.
  7. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart W.A. Schenck (1896); Chemie Historische Groep: Schenck, P.A.
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart F. van den Berg (1894); AFS, Getuigenarchief, Schenck – van den Berg: Rouwkaart Martha van den Berg, juli 2013.
  9. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart F. van den Berg (1894).