Vera Frank
Vera Frank was a classmate of Anne Frank in kindergarten and at the Sixth Montessori School.
Person
Veronica (Vera) Jenny Frank was a daughter of Maurits Frank (1896-1943) and Rebecca Sluizer (1901-1943). They were married in Amsterdam on 1 May 1924.[1] Vera had a younger sister Jenny (1932-1943).[2] Her father was a bank clerk and her mother had worked as an office clerk. The family was liberal Jewish.[3] Vera had the same surname as Anne Frank, but they were not related.
Vera was enrolled by Preparatory School No. 51 on 16 September 1932.[4] In the photo from spring 1934 of Anne Frank's kindergarten class, Vera is the girl in the white dress, sitting in front of the row of cards with numbers on them. Anne gave her number 7 in this photo.[5] In a photo from August 1934, she is sitting in the back centre, to the left of the door. In September 1934.[6] Vera went to the Sixth Montessori School. In the school years 1937-'38 through 1940-'41, she was again in the same class as Anne. In the class photo from 1938, she is sitting left of centre, right next to a flowerpot.[7] After the Sixth Montessori School, Vera was supposed to go to the 3-year Montessori ULO in 1941.[8]
During the German occupation, Vera's father Maurits worked as a stenography teacher for the Jewish Council. Through this position he obtained a sperre: temporary respite from deportation for his family.[9]
Vera, her parents and sister Jenny were deported to Camp Westerbork on 25 May 1943. On 1 June 1943, they were put on transport to Sobibor extermination camp, where they were murdered immediately upon arrival on 4 June 1943.[10] Of the 3006 people, who were aboard this fourteenth transport to Sobibor, Jules Schelvis turned out to be the only survivor.[11] After his retirement, he published his war experiences (Within the gates: an authentic account of two years of German concentration camps 1943-1945) and wrote the standard work Sobibor extermination camp. In 1999, he founded the Sobibor Foundation.[12]
Veronica Jenny Frank is commemorated on a plaque hanging in the hall of the 6th Montessori School Anne Frank.[13]
Source Personal Data.[14] Addresses: Zuider Amstellaan 45-III, Amsterdam; Krugerstraat 27-I (1943).[14]
Footnotes
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten Maurits Frank en Rebecca Sluizer.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Jenny Frank.
- ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsch Raad Cartotheek, DocID: 130287244 (Maurits FRANK) en DocID: 130287368 (Rebecca FRANK SLUIZER).
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Montessori_I_001: Administratie leerlingen K.O. "de Blauwe Zeedistel", volgnummer 164.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_AFrank_III_055.062: Klassenfoto van Anne Frank op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, voorjaar 1934.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_AFrank_III_027.065: Klassenfoto van Anne Frank op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, augustus 1934.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Montessori_III_002.004: Leerlingen uit de klas van Anne Frank op de Zesde Montessorischool, Amsterdam, 1938.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Montessori_I_002: Inschrijvingsboek voor leerlingen van de Zesde Montessorischool, 29 augustus 1932 t/m 6 april 1959, volgnummer 66.
- ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsch Raad Cartotheek, DocID: 130287244 (Maurits FRANK).
- ^ Joods Monument: Veronica Jenny Frank.
- ^ Stichting Sobibor: Transport 14.
- ^ Wikipedia: Jules Schelvis; Jules Schelvis, Binnen de poorten. Een authentiek relaas van twee jaar Duitse concentratiekampen 1943-1945, Bussum: De Bataafse Leeuw, 1989; Jules Schelvis, Vernietigingskamp Sobibor, Amsterdam: De Bataafse Leeuw, 1994.
- ^ Geheugen van Plan Zuid: Plaquette Anne Frankschool.
- a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Veronica Jenny Frank; Joods Monument: Veronica Jenny Frank.
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Klassenfoto van Anne op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, voorjaar 1934
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Klassenfoto van de Zesde Montessorischool met onderwijzer J.G.E. van Gelder. Anne Frank staat naast hem, Amsterdam, 1938
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Klassenfoto van Anne op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, augustus 1934
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