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Job Jansen sr.

Job Jansen Sr. worked occasionally for Otto Frank's company Opekta in the mid-1930s.

Person

  • Josephus Marinus Jansen sr.
  • Born on: June 28, 1887
  • Born in: Hellevoetsluis, Nederland
  • Died on: Sept. 28, 1952

Job Jansen Sr. worked occasionally for Otto Frank's company Opekta in the mid-1930s. He married in 1906. The marriage broke down ten years later.[1] Around 1916, he worked as an administrator at Herman Heijermans' theatre company, where he also had the opportunity to play small roles. This is how he met Jetje Bremer, who worked at Centraal Theater; they got married in 1915.[2] Around the mid 1930s, she worked as a demonstrator at Opekta. This also enabled Jansen to work occasionally as a booth builder.[3] At this time he already sympathised with the NSB.[4]

In February '41, Jansen attended the funeral of Hendrik Koot, who had been fatally wounded in a street fight, as a WA member. Together with another WA member, he took a Jewish passer-by, who in their view did not behave respectfully enough, to the Singel office. There they threatened the policemen who were there because they refused to arrest the man.[5]

In March '41, Jansen met Otto Frank on Rokin. Otto Frank knew that Jansen was 'not dismissive' of the NSB. They talked about the state of the war, during which Frank said he was negative about Germany's prospects. A few weeks later, a visitor called Ahlers came to his office. He showed a letter in which this conversation was reported to the leadership of the NSB, with a request to forward this letter to the SD. Frank saw Jansen's name and NSB member number 29992 under the letter, and he also recognised the handwriting.[6] Otto Frank paid Ahlers for the information, kept the letter and had it read by several members of staff, an agent of the immigration service and Mr. Dunselman. Dunselman destroyed the letter.[6]

On 21 March 1949, the Amsterdam subdistrict court convicted Jansen of various offences, including denouncing Otto Frank and threatening the police officers at the Singel office. He was sentenced to four and a half years' internment. He was released on 30 September 1949 after deduction of time served in pre-trial detention.[7]

Source personal data.[8] Addresses: Warmondstraat 111 huis, Amsterdam (9132), Amstelveenseweg 72 huis (1938);[9] Kazernestraat 16 II (1941), Ptolemaeusstraat 10 bv (July 1942), Den Haag (July1942).[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238), Archiefkaart J.M. Jansen.
  2. ^ Nationaal Archief (NL-HaNA), Den Haag, Centraal Archief Bijzondere Rechtspleging (CABR), inv. nr. 23834, rapport Pro Justitia, 10 februari 1949, p. 2.
  3. ^ NL-HaNA, CABR, inv. nr. 23834, p.v.b. PRA A’dam, verklaring Otto Frank.
  4. ^ NL-HaNA, CABR, inv. nr. 23834, rapport Pro Justitia, p. 3.
  5. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 6730, rapport bureau Singel, 17 februari 1941, mut. 9.55.
  6. a, b NL-HaNA, CABR, 23834, PRA A’dam, verklaring O. Frank.
  7. ^ NL-HaNA, CABR, 23834, PRA A’dam, uitspraak Kantongerecht 21 maart 1949. For further reading, see: Rosemary Sullivan, The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation, New York, NY: Harper, 2020, p. 113-120.
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J.M. Jansen; Sytze van der Zee, Vogelvrij. De jacht op de joodse onderduiker, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2010, p. 83.
  9. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5421): Gezinskaart J.M. Jansen.