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Danka Gostelie - Zajde

Danka Zajde was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

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Vervaardiger Studio Merkelbach. Beeldbank Stadsarchief Amsterdam.
  • Danka Gostelie - Zajde
  • Born on: Dec. 17, 1928
  • Born in: Lodz, Polen
  • Died on: March 5, 2013
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Danka Zajde, 1949.

Vervaardiger Studio Merkelbach. Beeldbank Stadsarchief Amsterdam.

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Danka Zajde was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum. Danka's parents wanted to leave Poland around 1930. Her father — who was a tailor — travelled ahead. He arrived in Amstrerdam by ship and became enchanted with the city, so the family settled there.[1]

According to a note in Anne's diary dated June 1942, she and Danka did not get along.[2] However, the note also shows that Danka, together with Nanny van Praag and Eefje de Jong, gave her a book for her birthday.

Danka later went into hiding with her father and mother in Hoorn and Heerhugowaard.[3]  She survived the war and obtained Dutch natonality in 1952.[4]

Source personal data.[5] Addresses: P.C. Hooftstraat 50 huis, Amsterdam (1936 until she went into hiding).[6]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Zadje, Danka: Transcriptie interview Danka Zajde, 18 november 2011, p. 1-2.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Zadje, Danka: Transcriptie interview Danka Zajde, 18 november 2011, p. 11-12.
  4. ^ Verslag der Handelingen van de Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal, 30 december 1952, p. 49.
  5. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart B. Zajde; Rouwadvertentie, NRC Handelsblad, 9 maart 2013.
  6. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart B. Zajde.