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Willy Philip Pos

Willy Philip Pos was Anne Frank's Dutch language teacher at the Jewish Lyceum.

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Foto: onbekend. Fotocollectie Joods Historisch Museum
  • Willy Philip Pos
  • Born on: Oct. 26, 1912
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: Jan. 4, 1977
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Willy Pos, 1943

Foto: onbekend. Fotocollectie Joods Historisch Museum

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Willy Philip Pos was Anne Frank's Dutch language teacher at the Jewish Lyceum.[1]

Pos wrote various plays, one of which was performed in 1939. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy in Amsterdam on 12 December 1940, and was qualified to teach Dutch language and literature as well as history. On 8 October 1941 he got a temporary appointment as a Dutch language teacher at the Jewish Lyceum.[2] While there, he organised several theatrical performances. He survived the war by going into hiding in 1943.[3]

After the war he taught Dutch at two secondary schools in Amsterdam: the Barlaeus and the Vossius.[2] In 1947 he became Director of the Academy for Dramatic Art (Toneelschool Amsterdam), and he remained in that post until 1966. Between 1952 and 1977 he worked as a lecturer and scientific collaborator at the universities of Amsterdam and Leiden.[4] In 1962 he took a seat on the board of the Individueel Voortgezet en Kunstzinnig Onderwijs (IVKO), a Montessori art school in Amsterdam.[5] In 1971 Pos gained his doctoral degree by writing a dissertation on August Defresne.[6]

Source personal data [7] Addresses: Lomanstraat 65 huis, Amsterdam; Weteringschans 126 huis (1946).[8]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to him as : (one of) my teachers, 9 in all, 7 masters and 2 mistresses. Anne Frank, Version B, 21 June 1942, in: The Collected Works; [transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty; transl. from the German language by Kirsten Warner and transl. from the Dutch language by Nancy Forest-Flier]. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4729-6491-5.
  2. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Afdeling Onderwijs en rechtsvoorganger (toegang 5191), inv. nr. 9981: Stamkaart W. Ph. Pos.
  3. ^ Dienke Hondius, Absent. Herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam, 1941 - 1943, Amsterdam: Vassalucci, 2001, p. 178 en 193.
  4. ^ Zie http://theaterencyclopedie.nl/wiki/Willy_Philip_Pos (geraadpleegd 13 maart 2018).
  5. ^ "Voorbereiding op beroep in de kunst", Het Parool, 15 mei 1962.
  6. ^ W. Ph. Pos, De toneelkunstenaar August Defresne. Toneelschrijver, regisseur, toneelleider, Amsterdam: Moussault, 1971.    
  7. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegang 30238): Archiefkaart W. Ph. Pos.
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238). Archiefkaart H.S. Pos (1883).