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Jacob Boon

Jacob Boon was a manager at the Keg food company.

Person

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  • Jacob Boon
  • Born on: May 19, 1910
  • Born in: Zaandam, Nederland
  • Died on: Jan. 27, 1982
  • Died in: Laren, Nederland

Jacob Boon, omstreeks 1943.

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Status onduidelijk

Jacob Boon was branch manager of the Keg company,[1] wholesale trading company in coffee, tea and dried food, which was located at Prinsengracht 265, next to Otto Frank's business and hiding place. He was in charge of tea trading.[2] He lived in South Africa for some time in the mid-1930s and upon his return became a manager at the Keg company.[3] In this capacity, he reported many burglaries and thefts, as well as attempted burglaries, at Prinsengracht 265.[4] 

On 3 May 1942, Boone's brother Jasper Hendrik was among the seventy-two Dutch who were killed in Sachsenhausen for involvement with the OD.[5] On 23 August of that year, his son was born, whom he named after his brother.[2] Due to the many break-ins in business premises, Boon slept in the Keg building more than once during the war years as a precaution.[6] Otto Frank's list of names on the occasion of the publication of The Secret Annex also includes 'Keg — Boon', with a reference to 11 July 1942​​​​​​​.[7] The Keg company is mentioned in The Secret Annex on that date.[8]

Source personal data.[9] Address: Nassaukade 107 II, Amsterdam (’37-’69).[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to him as the manager of Keg's. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 18 and 25 April 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J. Boon.
  3. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart J. Boon.
  4. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nrs. 6437 en 6439: Rapporten Marnixstraat van 29 juli en 2 september 1940, en 8 maart 1941.
  5. ^ Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940 – 1945, p. 433; L. de Jong, Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Deel 5: maart '41 - juli '42 : tweede helft, Den Haag: Nijhoff, 1974, p. 969.
  6. ^ Telefoongesprek Gertjan Broek met Ank Boon, 2 oktober 2013.
  7. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_100.
  8. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 11 July 1942, in: The Collected Works.
  9. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J. Boon; Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Den Haag, Centraal archief van overledenen: Persoonskaart J. Boon.