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Rosey Pool

Rosey Pool was an English teacher at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Rosa Eva Pool
  • Born on: May 7, 1905
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: Sept. 28, 1971
  • Died in: Londen, Groot-Brittannië

Rosey Pool[1] was an English teacher at the Jewish Lyceum in 1941-1942, where Anne Frank went to school. [2]She married B.F. Kramer in Berlin in 1932. The marriage was dissolved in 1935.[3] At the beginning of 1939 she left Berlin for Amsterdam and started teaching English to German-Jweish immmigrants. According to Otto Frank, she gave Edith English lessons. In the autumn of 1941 she took a seat on a committee that drew up guidelines for language training at Jewish schools.[4] According to one of her former pupils, Rosey Pool spoke "terrible" English.[5] 

Around 1950 she worked on an English translation of Het Achterhuis ('The Secret Annex'). Otto Frank thought that she had the right feeling for Anne, but I cannot judge her English qualities.[6] However, the translation was found to be inadequate.[7]

Documents relating to her work as a cultural anthropologist are in the keeping of the University of Sussex in Brighton.[8]

Source personal data.[9] Addresses: Berlin; Nieuwe Prinsengracht 120hs (1939), Geleenstraat 11 III (1945), Paletstraat 14hs (1945), London (1950).[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Rosey E. Pool.
  2. ^ Zie haar herinneringen: Rosey Pool, "Anne Frank: the child and the legend", in: World Order: A Bahá'í Magazine, 6 (1972) 3 (Spring), p. 51-56.
  3. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer. 30238): Archiefkaart R.E. Pool.
  4. ^ Dienke Hondius, Absent. Herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam 1941 - 1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p.72.
  5. ^ Hondius, Absent, p.123.
  6. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_132: Otto Frank aan Vallentine Mitchell & Co., 22 november 1950.
  7. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_132: Otto Frank aan Vallentine Mitchell & Co., 21 november 1950.  
  8. ^ University o Sussex - Specaial Collections: The Rosey Pool Collection.
  9. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart R.E. Pool; Familiebericht, Het Parool, 1 oktober 1971. Zie verder Lonneke Geerlings, Pool, Rosa Eva, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland; Lonneke Geerlings, De vele levens van Rosey Pool: strijdbaar van Westerbork tot Mississippi, Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2023 (bewerking van Survivor, agitator: Rosey E. Pool and the transatlantic century, proefschrift Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 2019).