Henk van Hoeve
Henk van Hoeve was a greengrocer who supplied vegetables to the people in hiding in the Secret Annex.
Person
Hendrikus (Henk) van Hoeve was a potato and vegetable trader who delivered vegetables to the helpers.[1]
Van Hoeve went to Nijmegen for the KNIL training at the Colonial Reserve in 1926.[2] In 1928, he joined the French Foreign Legion.[3] This step cost him his Dutch citizenship.[4]
In 1933 he returned from Algiers to Amsterdam as a stateless person.[2] In 1951, he became a naturalised Dutch citizen.[4]
On 1 September 1937 he married Hendrika Wilhelmina Scholten in Amsterdam.[5] With his greengrocer's shop, Van Hoeve was one of the food suppliers to the people in hiding in the Secret Annex. On the evening of 9 April 1944, as he walked past, he saw a hole in the door of Prinsengracht 263. The next day he spoke to Jan Gies about it.[6]
At the end of May 1944, Van Hoeve was arrested by the SD because he was hiding Jewish people.[7] He was taken to the Weteringschans holding cells and then on to Vught prison, and subsequently ended up in Oranienburg and Wensleben, among other places.[8]
In the 1959 George Stevens film The Diary of Anne Frank, Henk van Hoeve played himself.[9]
Source personal data.[5] Addresses: Prinsengracht 130, Amsterdam (Sept. '37); Leliegracht 58hs (February ’39).[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne refers to him as (one of): our vegetable suppliers and (one of the) married couple with a torch. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 29 March 1944, 11 April 1944, 25 and 26 May 1944; Diary Version B, 4 March 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart H. van Hoeve.
- ^ See: Nederlanders in het Franse Vreemdelingenlegioen: Van Hoeve, Hendrikus.
- a, b Handelingen Tweede Kamer 1950 – 1951, Kamerstuknummer 2077, ondernummer 3.
- a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238). Archiefkaart H. van Hoeve.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 9 April 1944, in: The Collected Works.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 25 May 1944, in: The Collected Works.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Van Hoeve: Verslag van oorlogsbelevenissen door H. van Hoeve, “Groenteman van Anne Frank”.
- ^ See: Wikipedia: The Diary of Anne Frank (1959).
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De groentewinkel van Henk van Hoeve, ca. 1940. Zijn vrouw Riek staat in de deuropening.
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