Josephina Maria Monasch
Josephina Maria Monasch was Anne Frank's physical education teacher at the Jewish Lyceum.
Josephina Monasch was a daughter of Eliazer Monasch, managing director of NV Monasch & Co, a company trading in raw tobacco. She began teaching physical education at the Jewish Lyceum in 1941 because she was no longer allowed to teach at the Barlaeus Gymnasium.[1] She was one of its five Jewish teachers who were fired after the civil service ban of 1 November 1940.[2] At the Jewish Lyceum she taught girls and made sure that Hanneli Goslar and Anne Frank were put in the same class and able to sit next to each other.[3] Following liberation, she went back to Barlaeus.[4] Actress and writer Annemarie Oster remembers being taught gymnastics by Miss Monasch, but isn't very flattering about her.[5]
Source personal data.[6] Addresses: Van Eeghenstraat 52 huis, Amsterdam. In 1967, she moved to Amstelveen.[7]
Footnotes
- ^ Dienke Hondius, Absent. Herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam 1941 – 1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p.32.
- ^ Peter Hermans, Niet voor de school, niet voor het leven. De joodse leerlingen en docenten van het Barlaeusgymnasium 1940-1945, Amsterdam: Barlaeusgymnasium, 2004, p. 34.
- ^ E-mail Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen, 4 september 2012; 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.
- ^ Hermans, Niet voor de school, niet voor het leven, p. 38.
- ^ Marcella van der Weg, De vaste route van Annemarie Oster, Ons Amsterdam, 5 april 2013.
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Josephina Maria Monasch; Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Den Haag, Centraal archief van overledenen: Persoonskaart J.M. Monasch.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Josephina Maria Monasch.