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Martha van den Berg

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

Martha van den Berg was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Sixth Montessori School.[1] She had an older brother and two younger sisters.[2] She attended the Sixth Montessori School from 16 August 1935 to 12 July 1941. After that she went to the Municipal Lyceum for Girls.[3]

In 1939, Martha attended Anne Frank's tenth birthday party. She is in a photo taken that day, together with Anne, Kitty Egyedi, Mary Bos, Iet Swillens, Lucie van Dijk, Hanneli Goslar, Juultje Ketellapper and Sanne Ledermann .[4]

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.[5]

She married Pieter Schenck on 14 January 1956.[6]

Source personal data.[7]  Address: Westerscheldeplein 15hs, Amsterdam.[8]

Footnotes

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart F. van den Berg (1894).
  3. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Montessorischool_I_001: Leerlingenregister Zesde Montessorischool, volgnr. 106.
  4. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_AFrank_III_055.089: Foto met bijschrift in album ‘Blanco Electro Monster Huishoudboek’.
  5. ^ AFS, Getuigenverhalen II: Interview Martha Schenck – van den Berg door Teresien da Silva, Voorburg, 3 april 2013, tijdcode 19:44:04.
  6. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart W.A. Schenck (1896).
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart F. van den Berg (1894).