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Leni Duijzend

Leni Duijzend was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Leni Duijzend
  • Born on: March 20, 1928
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: March 15, 2019

Leni Duijzend was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.[1] After the first year at the Jewish Lyceum, she transferred to the Jewish Montessori Lyceum. At the end of May 1943, she went into hiding. After some time she ended up in the Pas-Op-camp near Nunspeet. When she could not stay there due to danger, she ended up in Elburg. She stayed there until the end of the war.[2]

Her maternal grandfather was Chief Rabbi A.S. Onderwijzer.[3] The second initial does not appear in the official population records. Leni Duijzend was a general practitioner during her working life.

Source personal data.[4]  Address: Johannes Verhulststraat 189, Amsterdam.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Theo Coster, Klasgenoten van Anne Frank, Amsterdam: Carrera, 2009, p. 77, 115-116.
  3. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart I-II A. Onderwijzer (1862).
  4. ^ Elburg in oorlogstijd: In memoriam Leni Duijzend (1928-2019).
  5. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart A. Duijzend (1893).