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Martin Jacob Premsela

Martin Jacob Premsela taught French at the Girls' Lyceum and the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Martin Jacob Premsela
  • Born on: Jan. 25, 1896
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: July 23, 1960
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Martin Premsela began his career as a French teacher at the Gymnasium and Rijks-HBS in Zwolle, then at the Municipal Lyceum for Girls in Amsterdam[1] and since 1931 at the Vossius Gymnasium.[2] Because of his Jewish background, his employment there was terminated in 1941, after which he found work at the Jewish Lyceum.[3]

Apart from teaching French, he was also a certified translator.[2] He translated books for Meulenhoff publishers, including 'es hommes passerènt… by Marcelle Capy. He gave Anne Frank, Hanneli Goslar and Stella Lek private lessons once a week.[4] A lesson with a cheating incident is described in Anne's story Do You Remember?.[5]

In 1943 Prmesela went into hiding. At a staff meeting in the spring of 1943, Premsela was reported as one of the teachers absent "due to circumstances."[6] He managed to survive the war and afterwards was able to resume his classes at the Vossius Gymnasium.[2]

Source personal data.[7] Address: Overtoom 466 III, Amsterdam.[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Gedenkboek ter gelegenheid van het 25-jarig bestaan van het Gemeentelijke Lyceum voor Meisjes te Amsterdam en het afscheid van Dr Margrita J. Freie, als rectrix van deze school, Amsterdam, 1950, p. 33
  2. a, b, c Vertalerslexikon: Martin J. Premsela, 1896-1960.
  3. ^ Dienke Hondius, Absent. Herinneringen aan het Joods lyceum Amsterdam 1941 – 1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 26, 76.
  4. ^ Dagboek Premsela, aangehaald in: Hondius, Absent, p. 80.
  5. ^ Anne Frank, Tales and events from the Secret Annex, "Do You Remember? Memories of my schooldays at the Jewish Lyceum'', in: The Collected Works; transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. See also: Diary Version B, 21 June 1942, in: The Collected Works.
  6. ^ Hondius, Absent, p. 226..
  7. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart M.J. Premsela.