Horst Ferber
Horst Ferber was in kindergarten of the Sixth Montessori School together with Anne Frank.
Person
Horst Ferber was a son of Harry Ferber (1904-1962) and Friedchen Steinberg (1908-1990).[1] In early 1934, when Horst was 3 years old, he and his parents came to the Netherlands from Germany to escape increasing Nazi oppression. According to Horst, his father had a bicycle shop in Amsterdam and his mother owned Vendôme, a shop in women's fashion items and novelties, at Leidsestraat 60 in Amsterdam.[2] Her personal card in the Amsterdam population register lists shopkeeper as her occupation.[3]
Horst was enrolled at Preparatory School No. 51 on 28 May 1934. He joined Anne Frank's class there.[4] In a photo from spring 1934 of the kindergarten class, Horst sits on the ground on the left.[5] In a photo from August 1934, he sits in the middle back, right in front of Anne.[6] In the 1935 photo of the kindergarten class, Horst is the boy with the folded hands in the front right. Unlike Anne, he did not go on to the Sixth Montessori School.[4]
After Julius Steinberg, Horst's maternal grandfather, was murdered in Chemnitz during the Novemberprogrom of 1938,[7] his grandmother Elise Burghardt (1881-1963) fled to the Netherlands. She moved in with her daughter's family on Zuider Amstellaan.[8] Between the ages of 11 and 14, Horst was in hiding at various addresses, as described in his book Hiding Horst: Memoirs of a Jewish Boy. Both his parents and grandmother were also in hiding and thus survived the war.
Harry and Friedchen's marriage was dissolved in January 1948. Both remarried. Friedchen obtained Dutch citizenship in 1952, grandmother Elise in 1954.[9] Harry emigrated to Costa Rica in 1954.[1]
Horst left for New York in April 1949 at the age of 20 with the ambition of becoming a professional jazz musician. There, he continued to go through life as Frederick Ferber. He was drafted by the US Army and stationed in Germany with the 34th Army Band, where he toured Europe and the US with a young Eddie Fisher. Although he had a number of professions over the years, his love and talent for jazz prevailed. He played in New York, San Francisco and throughout California's Central Coast.[10]
Horst (Frederick) Ferber passed away in 2007 at the age of 77.
Source personal data.[10] Addresses: Molenbeekstraat 21-II, Amsterdam (1934); Zuider Amstellaan 43-II (1936).[1]
Footnotes
- a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Harry Ferber.
- ^ Becky White, Hiding Horst: Memoirs of a Jewish Boy, 2021. In mei 1941 werd hier ingebroken en voor enige duizenden guldens buitgemaakt. Belangrijke diefstal van damesmode-artikelen, de Volkskrant, 9 mei 1941.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Friedchen Steinberg.
- a, b Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Montessori_I_001: Administratie leerlingen K.O. "de Blauwe Zeedistel", volgnummer 300.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bundesarchiv - Gedenkbuch Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933 - 1945: Steinberg, Julius.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Elise Burghardt.
- ^ Wet van 23 April 1952, houdende naturalisatie van Johann Artz en 19 anderen, Staatsblad van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden, 1952, no. 201-250; Wet van 16 December 1954, houdende naturalisatie van Robert Alphonse Devos en 19 anderen, Staatsblad van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden, 1954, no. 502-599.
- a, b Legacy.com: Frederick Ferber Obituary.
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Klassenfoto van Anne op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, 1935
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Klassenfoto van Anne op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, voorjaar 1934
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Klassenfoto van Anne op de Voorbereidende school No. 51, Amsterdam, augustus 1934
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