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Jan Gerrit Enno van Gelder

Van Gelder was a teacher of Anne Frank at the Sixth Montessori School.

Person

Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam
  • Jan Gerrit Enno van Gelder
  • Born on: Feb. 22, 1893
  • Born in: Gouda, Nederland
  • Died on: May 26, 1980
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Klassenfoto van de Montessorischool met onderwijzer J.G.E. van Gelder. Anne Frank staat naast hem, 1938

Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam

Status onduidelijk

Jan Gerrit Enno van Gelder was a teacher of Anne Frank at the Sixth Montessori School.[1] In June 1947 Otto Frank gave him a copy of the first edition of Het Achterhuis with an accompanying note.[2]

Source personal data.[3] Addresses: Weesperzijde 122 boven, Amsterdam (’38); Reitdiepstraat 10 III (March ’40); Hunzestraat 45 III (Sept. '40).[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to him as Mr van Gelder. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collecties, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_100: Otto Frank aan J.G.E. van Gelder, juni 1947.
  3. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J.G.E. van Gelder.