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Jetje Jansen - Bremer

Jetje Bremer worked as a demonstrator for Otto Frank's company Opekta.

Person

  • Jetje Jansen - Bremer
  • Born on: Dec. 18, 1895
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: Oct. 16, 1962
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Jetje Bremer married Josephus Marinus (Job) Jansen in 1915. She was just twenty and still a minor. The couple had six children.[1]

In the mid 1930s, she worked as a demonstrator for Opekta. She travelled the country and gave demonstrations at local branches of women's organisations on how to make jam, pudding and cake filling. As far as can be ascertained, she did this work between November 1934 and July 1936.[2] Her husband and one of their sons also worked for Opekta occasionally during this period.[3] From about 1938, she and her husband had a flower shop on Amstelveenseweg, where they also lived.

Jetje Bremer was Jewish and her marriage to a non-Jewish man protected her from deportation during the occupation. The marriage was not very harmonious, however, and in the 1930s the estrangement became greater due to her husband's increasingly close links with the NSB. During the occupation, he left her, but as the marriage was not dissolved, she retained the status of a mixed wife. Seven of her siblings were killed in extermination camps in 1943.[4]

In 1946, she declared to the Political Investigation Department that she wanted nothing more to do with her husband.[5] The marriage was dissolved in 1950.[6]

Source personal data.[7] Addresses: Warmondstraat 111 huis, Amsterdam (’32), Amstelveenseweg 72 huis (’38);[8] Stationsplein 22-II, The Hague (1950).[6]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J.M. Jansen.
  2. ^ Nederl. Vereeniging van Huisvrouwen. Demonstratie met Opekta”, Woerdensch Weekblad, 1 december 1934; Varsseveld”, De Graafschapbode, 24 februari 1936; Provinciaal nieuws”, Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, 18 juli 1936.
  3. ^ Nationaal Archief (Nl-HaNA), Den Haag, Centraal Archief Bijzondere Rechtspleging (CABR), inv. nr. 23834, p.v.b. PRA A’dam, Verklaring Otto Frank; privébezit familie Jansen: brieven van M. Santrouschitz en I. Monas aan J.M. Jansen jr., 20 januari en 21 februari 1936.
  4. ^ Joods Monument: Joseph Bremer.
  5. ^ Nl-HaNA, CABR, inv. nr. 23834: p.v.b. PRA tegen J.M. Jansen, doss. 8082, p. 6.
  6. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J. Bremer.
  7. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J. Bremer; Geni: Jetje Bremer 
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart J.M. Jansen.