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Peter Schiff

Peter Schiff was a boyfriend of Anne Frank, about whom she dreamt several times in the Secret Annex.

Person

Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam. By courtesy of Ernst Michaelis
  • Lutz Peter Schiff
  • Berlijn, Duitsland Sept. 9, 1926
  • Auschwitz May 31, 1945

Peter Schiff, 1939

Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam. By courtesy of Ernst Michaelis

Status onduidelijk

Peter Schiff was Anne Frank's boyfriend for a while. Anne writes in her diary that he is her great love.[1] Peter's parents divorced in 1931. His mother Erika Lewin married the advertising designer Rudolf Kosterlitz in Berlin in 1936.[2]

Peter came to the Netherlands with a children's transport. Upon his departure in 1939, he exchanged photographs with Ernst Michaelis, with whom he had attended school in Berlin.[3] Before joining his mother and foster father in Amsterdam, he stayed in Rotterdam and Gouda. Since they lived in only one room, in which Kosterlitz also did his drawing work, they had to look for other accommodation, with a room of his own for Peter.[4]  

He had an affidavit for emigration to the United States and a German children's pass, but it turned out not to be possible to arrange emigration at short notice.[5]

He took the '4th HBS with three-year course' at P.L. Takstraat 34. In August 1941, this school put him on the list of Jewish pupils.[6] Because Jewish students and teachers were forbidden to attend regular schools as of 1 September 1941, Peter had to transfer to the Jewish HBS-A at Mauritskade 24.[7] In the school year 1941-'42 he was in class 2B[7] and in 1942-'43 he was in the third class.[8]

Peter lived with his mother and foster father with the family of Max Winterberger. His foster father Kosterlitz informed the police on 16 July 1942 that this family of five had been missing since the previous day.[9] (The Winterbergers survived).

Peter's father Richard Schiff lived in Amsterdam from February 1936 to May 1937. He then left for the United States and settled in New York.[10]

According to the 'Gedenkbuch' on the website of the Bundearchiv, Peter was shipped to Bergen-Belsen on 1 February 1944, to Theresienstadt on 12 July 1944, to Auschwitz on 28 September 1944 and to Dachau on 10 October 1944.[5]

Source personal data.[11] Addresses: Noorder Amstellaan 27a (June 1939);[5]  Deltastraat 9 (April 1940); Westerscheldeplein 25 I (August 1940); Zuider Amstellaan 37 III (February 1941); Waalstraat 23 I (December 1942).[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 14 June 1942, 30 June 1942, July 1942, 14 October 1942, 1st, 6 January 1944, 19 January 1944, 12 February 1944, 28 February 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Erika Lewin.
  3. ^ Annes vriendje heeft gezicht, Het Parool, 26 februari 2008. Lutz Peter Schiff is one of Anne Frank's friends portrayed in: Janny van der Molen, Vergeet mij niet. Anne Franks vrienden en vriendinnen, Amsterdam: Ploegsma, 2022, p. 10-33.
  4. ^ SAA, Secretarie; Algemene Zaken, toegang 5181, inv. nr. 5039, volgnr. 695: correspondentie Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken, Hoofdcommissaris van Politie en Hoofd Algemene Zaken over Lutz Peter Schiff, 1939.
  5. a, b, c Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksvreemdelingendienst en taakvoorgangers, toegang 2.09.45, inv. nr. 130: Gezinskaart t.n.v. Lutz Peter Israel Schiff.
  6. ^ SAA, Afdeling Onderwijs en rechtsvoorganger, inv. nr. 7410: Lijst ‘Joodse leerlingen van de 4e H.B.S. m. 3 jr. c.’.
  7. a, b NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Archief 181e (W.S.H. Elte), inv. nr. 16: Rapporten van de cursus 1941/42, klas 2B.
  8. ^ NIOD, Archief 181e (W.S.H. Elte), inv. nr. 20: Rapporten van de cursus 1942/43, klas 3A+B.
  9. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 6650: Meldingsrapporten Pieter Aertszstraat, 16 juli 1942, mut. 19.40.
  10. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegang 5422): Gezinskaart R. Schiff (1890).
  11. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30328): Archiefkaart Lutz Peter Schiff; Joods Monument: Lutz Peter Schiff . Volgens het Gedenkbuch' op de website van het Bundesarchiv overlijdt hij op die datum in Dachau.

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Aandenken geschonken aan Ernst Michaelis door zijn vrienden Lutz Peter Schiff en Fritz Glückstein, 22 juli 1939. Vel papier met portretfoto's en een briefje van de twee jongens.

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