Rosey Pool
Rosey Pool was an English teacher at the Jewish Lyceum.
Person
Rosey Pool was an English teacher at the Jewish Lyceum in 1941-1942, where Anne Frank went to school. [1] She married German lawyer and politician Gerhard Friedrich Kramer in Berlin in 1932.[2] The marriage was dissolved in 1935.[3] At the beginning of 1939 she left Berlin for Amsterdam and started teaching English to German-Jewish immmigrants.[4] 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.[5] According to one of her former pupils, Rosey Pool spoke "terrible" English.[6]
Around 1950 she worked on an English translation of Het Achterhuis. Otto Frank thought that she had "the right feeling" for Anne, "but I cannot judge her English qualities."[7] However, the translation was judged to be inadequate.[8]
In the years after the war, she became an advocate of African-American poetry. From 1959 onwards, she travelled several times to the United States, where she campaigned against discrimination and for black civil rights.
Documents relating to her work as a cultural anthropologist are part of the holdings of the University of Sussex in Brighton.[9]
Source personal data.[10] Addresses: Berlin; Nieuwe Prinsengracht 120hs (1939), Geleenstraat 11 III (1945), Paletstraat 14hs (1945), London (1950).[3]
Footnotes
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wikipedia: Gerhard Kramer (Politiker, 1904).
- a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer. 30238): Archiefkaart Rosa Eva Pool.
- ^ Wikipedia: Rosey E. Pool.
- ^ Dienke Hondius, Absent. Herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam 1941 - 1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 72.
- ^ Hondius, Absent, p. 123.
- ^ 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.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_132: Otto Frank aan Vallentine Mitchell & Co., 21 november 1950.
- ^ University o Sussex - Specaial Collections: The Rosey Pool Collection.
- ^ 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).