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Leni Duijzend

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

Person

  • Leni Duijzend
  • Amsterdam, Nederland March 20, 1928
  • Elburg, Nederlands March 15, 2019

Leni (also: Leny) Duijzend was a daughter of Abraham Duijzend (1893-1977) and Elisabeth Onderwijzer (1898-1978).[1] She had an older sister, Ella Duijzend (1925–2012).[2] Haar vader was a rag-and-bone man.[1] Her maternal grandfather was Chief Rabbi Abraham Onderwijzer.[3]

Leni was a student at the Gemeentelijk Lyceum voor Meisjes (Municipal Lyceum for Girls) at Reinier Vinkeleskade 62 in Amsterdam. When the Girls' High School had to provide the names of Jewish pupils because of educational segregation in the summer of 1941, she was supposed to repeat the first year after the summer holidays.[4] However, because Jewish students and teachers were banned from attending regular schools from 1 September 1941, she had to transfer to the Jewish Lyceum. In the schoolyear 1941-'42 she was in class 1L2, which also included Anne Frank.[5] In her diary Anne charcterizes her as a kind-hearted but "very nervous girl, who always forgets things and gets one detention after another."[6] After the first year at the Jewish Lyceum, she transferred to the Jewish Montessori Lyceum.[2]

At the end of May 1943, Leni went into hiding. After some time she ended up in the Pas-Op-camp near Nunspeet.[7] When it became to dangerous to stay there any longer, she ended up in Elburg. She stayed there until the end of the war.[8]

Leni Duijzend was a general practitioner during her working life.In 2009, she was a guest in a special broadcast of the television program De Rëunie (The Reunion), in which fifteen former classmates of Anne Frank got together again.[9]

Source personal data.[10] Address: Johannes Verhulststraat 189, Amsterdam.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten Abraham Duijzend en Elisabeth Onderwijzer.
  2. a, b Elburg in oorlogstijd: Leni Duijzend (1928-2019).
  3. ^ J. Hagedoorn, 'Onderwijzer, Abraham [Samson] (1862-1934)', in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
  4. ^ SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang: 5191), inv. nr. 7410, volgnr. 2802: Opgave van het Gemeentelijk Lyceum voor Meisjes, 16 juli 1914, Ingekomen lijsten van middelbare scholen met opgave van aanwezige Joodse leerlingen.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  7. ^ Wikipedia: Het verscholen dorp.
  8. ^ Theo Coster, Klasgenoten van Anne Frank, Amsterdam: Carrera, 2009, p. 77, 115-116; Elburg in oorlogstijd: Leni Duijzend (1928-2019).
  9. ^ Beeld & Geluid: De Reunie - De klas van Anne Frank, KRO, 27 december 2009.
  10. ^ Elburg in oorlogstijd: In memoriam Leni Duijzend (1928-2019).

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