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Harry Max Schaap

Harry Schaap was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Harry Max Schaap
  • Amsterdam, Nederland April 19, 1929
  • Auschwitz Nov. 13, 1942

Harry Schaap was a son of Louis Schaap (1897-1943) and Sara Mulder (1902-1942).[1] He had an older sister Henriette (1926-1942).[2] His father dealt in household goods,[3] his mother was warehouse clerk.[4]

In 1941, Harry was enrolled at the HBS secondary school at Mauritskade 58 in Amsterdam, where he was to start in the first year after the summer holidays.[5] Because Jewish students and teachers were forbidden to attend regular schools as of 1 September 1941, he had to transfer to the Jewish Lyceum. In school year 1941-1942, he was in class 1L2, which also included Anne Frank​​​​​​.[6] In her diary Anne characterizes as him as "the decentest boy in our class."[7] Henriette, Harry's older sister, attended the same HBS secondary school he was supposed to go to.[5] She had to transfer to the Jewish Lyceum in 1941. There she was in class 4B1, the parallel class of Margot Frank.[8] On 28 March 1942, Harry had his Bar Mitzvah.[9]

Harry was transported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 10 November 1942. Immediately after his arrival on 13 November 1942, he was killed there, together with his mother and sister.[10] His father perished in Blechhammer, a labor camp for Jews, in June 1943.[11]

Source personal data.[1] Address: Pythagorasstraat 101 huis, Amsterdam.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Harry Max Schaap.
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Henriette Schaap.
  3. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Louis Schaap.
  4. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Sara Mulder.
  5. a, b On 17 July 1941, headmaster C.G. Gerrits submitted a list of all Jewish students at his school. The list contained a total of 47 names, including that of Harry Schaap. Four days later, Gerrits sent a letter to add another Jewish student to the list: SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang: 5191), inv. nr. 7410: Opgave van de 3e Hogere Burgerschool met Vijfjarige Cursus, 17 juli 1941, Ingekomen lijsten van middelbare scholen met opgave van aanwezige Joodse leerlingen.
  6. ^ 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. 269-270; Wikipedia: Klas van Anne Frank.
  7. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  8. ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Archief 181e (W.S.H. Elte), inv. nr. 2f: Absentenregister klas 4B2 Joods Lyceum, 1 maart – 17 juli 1942; Dienke Hondius, Absent: herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam 1941-1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 281-282.
  9. ^ 'Familileberichten', Het Joodsche Weekblad, 20 maart 1942.
  10. ^ Joods Monument: Harry Schaap; Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130369307 (Harry M SCHAAP); Arolsen Archives, List of names of Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in the Netherlands 1941-1945, DocID: 5152658.
  11. ^ Arolsen Archives, List of names of Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in the Netherlands 1941-1945, DocID: 5152661.

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