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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 in class 1L2 of the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam in the school year 1941-1942.[1] In her diary Anne charcterizes her as a kind-hearted but "very nervous girl, who always forgets things and gets one detention after another."[2]

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.[3]

Her maternal grandfather was Chief Rabbi A.S. Onderwijzer.[4] The second initial does not appear in the official population records. Leni Duijzend was a general practitioner during her working life.

Source personal data.[5] Address: Johannes Verhulststraat 189, Amsterdam.[6]

Footnotes

  1. ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Archief 181e (W.S.H. Elte), inv. nr. 2f: Absentenregister klas 1LII Joods Lyceum, 1 maart – 17 juli 1942; Dienke Hondius, Absent: herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam 1941-1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 269; Wikipedia: Klas van Anne Frank.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ Theo Coster, Klasgenoten van Anne Frank, Amsterdam: Carrera, 2009, p. 77, 115-116; Elburg in oorlogstijd: Leni Duijzend (1928-2019).
  4. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart I-II A. Onderwijzer (1862).
  5. ^ Elburg in oorlogstijd: In memoriam Leni Duijzend (1928-2019).
  6. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart A. Duijzend (1893).