Werner Basz

Werner Basz was a son of Maximilian Basz and Jeanette Fleischer, Jewish-German refugees who had come to Amsterdam from Berlin in July 1933. When entered in the Amsterdam population register, Maximilian Basz's occupation was listed as furrier and tailor.^[1]

On 2 October 1933, Werner was enrolled in Preparatory School No. 51.^[2] In the spring 1934 photo of the kindergarten class, he is the boy in overalls in the front left. Anne assigned him number 2 and called him Werner Bas.^[3] In a photo from August 1934, he is standing at the back left.^[4] In the 1935 photo he is in the back on the right. Anne gave him number 10 there.^[5]

When he was deregistered from the Sixth Montessori School on 12 July 1941, Werner was nominated to go to the Montessori Lyceum on Lairessestraat. He is mentioned on a plaque with 35 names of (former) pupils and teachers who did not survive the war. That plaque can be seen in the schoolyard of current Montessori Lyceum location on Pieter de Hoochstraat.^[6] Because Jewish students and teachers were banned from attending regular schools as of 1 September 1941, Werner never attended this school. He went to the Jewish HBS instead. This was an Orthodox Jewish school opposite the newly established Jewish Lyceum, the school Anne Frank attended.^[7]

From 15 January to 2 July 1943, Werner Basz and his parents were imprisoned in Camp Vught, and from 3 to 6 July in Westerbork,^[8] from where they were put on transport to Sobibor extermination camp with 2,417 others. There they were murdered immediately upon arrival on 9 July 1943.^[9] No one from this seventeenth transport to Sobibor managed to survive the camp.^[10]

Source personal data.^[11] Addresses: Prinsengracht 832hs, Amsterdam (1933); Roerstraat 108-III (1933).