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Louis Boas

Like Otto Frank, Louis Boas was part of the transport to Auschwitz on 3 September 1944 and of the repatriation trip via Odessa to the Netherlands.

Person

  • Louis Boas
  • Born on: May 1, 1913
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Louis Boas was a friend of Otto Frank. Both were part of the transport to Auschwitz on 3 September 1944 and of the repatriation journey via Odessa to the Netherlands.

Boas married M.J. Grönloh, a daughter of the writer Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh, pseudonym Nescio, on 24 January 1940.[1] Boas was a teacher and had a degree in French.[2]For unknown reasons, he ended up in Westerbork as a mixed marriage person and went on the last transport to Auschwitz on 3 September 1944. There he had the status of 'Schutzhaftling'.[3]

A librarian who was in contact with his father-in-law, Nescio, wrote to literary scholar Nico Donker on 8 October 1944: "They are worrying a bit about the daughter [...] now that her husband has been taken to D."[4]

Otto Frank noted down the name Louis Boas in the notebook he kept during his repatriation.[5] Otto Frank and Boas did not have intensive contact afterwards, but they met by chance in a restaurant in November 1967.[6]

Louis Boas and his wife signed the book of condolence at the Anne Frank House after Otto's death in 1980.[7]

Source personal data.[8] Addresses: Eerste Oosterparkstraat 11 I, Amsterdam; Nieuwe Herengracht 97 I, Amsterdam (’41 en ‘46); Statenweg 177a, Rotterdam (1953);[8] Paetsstraat 11;[6] Archimedesplantsoen 36 I, Amsterdam (1980).[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 6595: register van huwelijksakten 1940, deel 3, 32v, akte 45.
  2. ^ SAA, Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs en rechtsvoorganger (toegang 5191), inv. nr. 10830: lijst Joods personeel bij het gemeentelijk onderwijs, 25 september 1942.
  3. ^ ’Nederlandse Rode Kruis (NRK), Bureau Oorlogsnazorg, inv. nr. 1066: transportlijst Westerbork-Auschwitz, 3 september 1944, volgnr. 785.
  4. ^ Maurits Verhoeff, Verlangen zonder te weten waarnaar. Over Nescio, Amsterdam: Bas Lubberhuizen, 2011, p. 180.
  5. ^ AFS, AFC, OFA_040: Notitieboekje met verslag van repatriëring door Otto Frank, achtste beschreven bladzijde plus notitie 19 mei 1945.
  6. a, b Anne frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_051: Kaartenbak IV, adressenbestand Holland, kaartje ‘Louis Boas (Lehrer)’.
  7. a, b AFS, AFC, OFA_066: Condoleanceregister Otto Frank.
  8. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegang 30238): archiefkaart L. Boas.