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Josephina Maria Monasch

Josephina Maria Monasch was Anne Frank's gym teacher at the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam.

Person

  • Josephina Maria Monasch
  • Born on: Nov. 23, 1905
  • Born in: Kopenhagen, Denemarken
  • Died on: Nov. 11, 1998
  • Died in: Amstelveen, Nederland

Josephina Monasch was Anne Frank's gym teacher at the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. She went there in 1941 because as a Jew she was no longer allowed to teach at the Barlaeus Gymnasium (Grammar School).[1] She taught the girls[2] and made sure that Hanneli Goslar and Anne Frank were put in the same class and able to sit next to each other.[3] After the liberation, she went back to Barleus.[4]  

Source personal data.[1][5] Addresses: Van Eeghenstraat 52 huis, Amsterdam. Ze vertrok in 1967 naar Amstelveen.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J.M. Monasch.
  2. ^ E-mail Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen, 4 september 2012.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Tales and events from the Secret Annex, "My First Day at the Lyceum", 11 August 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  4. ^ Peter Hermans, Niet voor de school, niet voor het leven. De joodse leerlingen en docenten van het Barlaeusgymnasium 1940-1945, Amsterdam: Barlaeusgymnasium, 2004, p. 38.
  5. ^ Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Den Haag, Centraal archief van overledenen: Persoonskaart J.M. Monasch.