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Appie Reens

Appie Reens was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Abraham Reens
  • Born on: July 28, 1927
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: June 24, 1943
  • Died in: Sobibor

Appie Reens was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.[1] During the German occupation, he was an employee of the Jewish Council.[2] Anne writes in her diary that Appie is "quite orthodox".[3] In August 1940 he did Bar Mitzvah. A certificate of this occasion is in the collection of the Jewish Historical Museum.[4] 

Appie arrived in camp Westerbork on the 25th of May 1943.[5] On the 24th of June 1943 he was killed in concentration camp Sobibor.[2]

Source personal data.[2] Addresses: Sassenheimstraat 51 huis, Amsterdam.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, W.S.H. Elte, toegang 181e, inv. nr. 2f: Absentenregister klas 1LII Joods Lyceum, 1 maart – 17 juli 1942.
  2. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten, toegang 30238, archiefkaart A. Reens.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  4. ^ Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam: Oorkonde uitgereikt aan Abraham Reens ter gelegenheid van zijn bar mitswa, 1940 (objectnummer M000809).
  5. ^ Joodse Raad kaart Abraham Reens, Document ID: 130360849, Arolsen Archives.