Roos van Gelder
Roos van Gelder was a trainer of Margot Frank's rowing team.
Person
Roos van Gelder coached Margot Frank's rowing team. She worked as a gymastics teacher in primary education.[1] After segregation, she continued working in the Jewish education system.[2] She was also a rowing coach and trained Margot's rowing team.[3] Her pupils considered her a good coach, although strict and a perfectionist.[4] Around 1996, her niece Nan Mensing sent a number of photos of these rowing activities.[5]
She lived in Amsterdam using the name Lena de Jong-van Soest. Her family had a rationing registration card in the name of Lena van Soest, wife of De Jong, born 14 April 1908 and living at Govert Flinckstraat 94-II. They also had a German permit, dated 5 January 1945, to cross the IJssel river at Kampen and Genemuiden. This applied to Lena van Soest and Hendrika van Gelder. In other words: to Rozette and her sister who was in a mixed marriage.[6]
The identity card, registration card, and other items had been stolen from the real Lena de Jong-van Soest - the address and date of birth correspond with hers - on 22 December 1942, probably in a school in de Pijp. She filed a police report for the theft on that same day at the Pieter Aertszstraat police station.[7]
Roos van Gelder died in April 1996.[5]
Source personal data.[2] Addresses: Rivierenlaan 62 I, Amsterdam; Christiaan de Wetstraat 18hs (11 March 1943); Claes Persijnlaan 4, Amstelveen (July 1945).[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Afdeling Onderwijs en rechtsvoorganger (toegang 5191), inv. nr. 10831: Verklaring van Rozette van Gelder omtrent Joodse grootouders, 21 oktober 1940, no. 1489 (afschrift).
- a, b, c SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart R. van Gelder.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_085: Brief Bella Kohlweij aan Otto Frank, 22 juli 1967.
- ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Kohlweij: Bella Kohlweij, 26 oktober 2009.
- a, b AFS, Getuigenarchief, Gelder, Rozette van.
- ^ Privébezit familie Mensinga: Tweede Distributiestamkaart t.n.v. Lena van Soest, geb. 14 april 1908 en "Bescheinigung" t.n.v. Lena van Soest en Hendrika van Gelder, 5 januari 1945.
- ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, toegang 5225, inv. nr. 6651: Meldingsrapporten Pieter Aertszstraat, 22 december 1942, mut. 13.00.
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Verklaring Roos van Gelder over Joodse grootouders.
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