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Joyce van der Veen

Joyce van der Veen was in a photo that Anne Frank had hung up in her room in the Secret Annex.

Person

  • Johanna van der Veen
  • Born on: April 27, 1927
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: March 11, 2008
  • Died in: Los Angeles, CA, Verenigde Staten

Joyce van der Veen was in a photograph that Anne Frank had hung up in her room in the Secret Annex. She was the child of a 'mixed marriage': her mother was Jewish, her father was not. Joyce went to the Montessori school on Corellistraat. She also took dance and violin lessons at the Conservatory and the Music Lyceum.[1] In 1941, a photographer took ballet photos of Joyce and Barbara Ledermann, who was unknown to her at that time.[2] The Libelle magazine used one of the photos to accompany an article about blushing written by Sis Heyster.[3] Anne Frank stuck this photo on the wall of her room in the Secret Annex.[4]

Joyce graduated from the Second Public Trade School on P.L. Takstraat in 1944. She then left for Friesland with her mother and sister. There they found shelter in the village of Hogebeintum. Her father stayed in Amsterdam. [5]

After the war, she went to Paris and then to the United States. There she married and had a daughter. She had roles in various films, including The Singing Nun (1966).[6]

Source personal data.[7] Address: Scheldestraat 129-III, Amsterdam.[8]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Getuigenarchief Van der Veen: interview Joyce van der Veen door Dineke Stam, 27 maart 1997, p. 4; Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam (toegang 5225), inv. nr. 6558: Meldingsrapport bureau Overtoom, 17 juni 1941, mut. 21.00 uur.
  2. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief Van der Veen, Interview Joyce van der Veen door Dineke Stam, p. 2.
  3. ^ Sis Heyster, “Een lastig verschijnsel”, Libelle, 3 oktober 1941.
  4. ^ Collection online: Afbeelding van Joyce van der Veen op de plaatjeswand in de kamer van Anne Frank.
  5. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief Van der Veen, Interview Joyce van der Veen door Dineke Stam, p. 5.
  6. ^ IMBd: Joyce Vanderveen.
  7. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister: Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J. van der Veen (1888); IMBd: Joyce Vanderveen.
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister: Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J. van der Veen (1888).