Hendrik Mussche
Hendrik Mussche was the warehouse manager of the Keg company, which was established in the neighbouring building on Prinsengracht.
Person
Hendrik Mussche was a warehouse manager[1] and shipping manager.[2] He worked at Keg, a wholesaler in coffee, tea and dried food, which was located at Prinsengracht 265 in the building next to Otto Frank's business and hiding place.[3]
On 29 July 1940, Mussche discovered that the Keg company at Prinsengracht 265, where he was warehouse manager at the time, had been broken into.[2] On 1 November 1940, he reported another attempted break-in at the company.[2] On a photo of the Keg staff taken around 1948 in front of the building at Prinsengracht 265, he is standing at the far right.[4]
The police report by State Investigator Van Helden from 1963-64 mentions a neighbour of Willem van Maaren who worked for Keg. Perhaps Van Helden was referring to Mussche, but as he died in 1956, Van Helden cannot have interviewed him in person.[5]
Source personal data.[1] Addresses: Palmgracht 9hs, Amsterdam; Schoffelstraat 9hs (Nov. '40).[1]
Footnotes
- a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Hendrik Mussche.
- a, b, c SAA, Politierapporten '40-'45, archiefnummer 5225, inventarisnummer 6438: Rapporten Marnixstraat, 1 november 1940, mut. 11.35.
- ^ Anne refers to him as the warehouse manager at the Keg company next door. Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 25 March 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief: Foto’s Ank Boon.
- ^ Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Centraal Archief Bijzondere Rechtspleging, inv. nr. 23892: Rijksrecherche, p.v.b. No. 86/1963 v.H., 35.