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Danka Gostelie - Zajde

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

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  • 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.

Publiek domein.

Danka's parents wanted to leave Poland around 1930. Her father — who was a tailor — travelled ahead. He arrived in Amsterdam by ship and became enchanted with the city, so the family settled there.[1]

Danka Zajde was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum in class 1L2.[2] According to a note in Anne's diary dated 15 June 1942, she and Danka did not get along.[3] However, the note also shows that Danka, together with Nanny van Praag and Eefje de Jong, gave her the book Goedemorgen, melkboer (Good morning, milk man) for her birthday.

Danka later went into hiding with her father and mother in Hoorn and Heerhugowaard.[4]  She survived the war and obtained Dutch natonality in 1952.[5]

Source personal data.[6] Addresses: P.C. Hooftstraat 50 huis, Amsterdam (1936 until she went into hiding).[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Zadje, Danka: Transcriptie interview Danka Zajde, 18 november 2011, p. 1-2.
  2. ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Archief 181e (W.S.H. Elte), inv. nr. 2f: Absentenregister klas 1LII Joods Lyceum, 1 maart – 17 juli 1942; Dienke Hondius, Absent: herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam 1941-1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 270; Wikipedia: Klas van Anne Frank.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  4. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Zadje, Danka: Transcriptie interview Danka Zajde, 18 november 2011, p. 11-12.
  5. ^ Verslag der Handelingen van de Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal, 30 december 1952, p. 49.
  6. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart B. Zajde; Rouwadvertentie, NRC Handelsblad, 9 maart 2013.
  7. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart B. Zajde.