Leo Slager
Leo Slager was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.
Person
Leo Slager was a son and only child of Maurits Slager and Sophia Elisabeth van Thijn.[1] As his Dutch surname suggests: Maurits Slager was a butcher.[2]
Like Anne,Leo went to the Sixth Montessori School, but they were not in the same class.[3] In 1941, he was enrolled at the HBS secondary school at Jozef Israëlskade 45 in Amsterdam, where he was to start in the first year after the summer holidays.[4] 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-'42, he was in class 1L2, which also included Anne Frank. In school year 1942-'43 he was in class 2B.[5] In her diary Anne characterizes him as not very intelligent.[6] However, an assessment by his teachers, dated 16 March 1942, shows that he was certainly not a poor pupil and was diligent.[7]
Maurits Slager was granted a Sperre, a temporary reprieve from deportation, because of his work for the Jewish Council at the department for Meat Supply,[8] but on 20 June 1943, Leo and his father were rounded up in one of the last major razzias that took place in the Southern and Eastern districts of Amsterdam, during which 5,500 Jews were deported to Westerbork.[9] On that occasion they were photographed by photographer and Nazi-collaborator Herman Heukels.[10] Leo's mother had already taken her own life in October 1942.[11]
Leo, along with his father, was deported on 29 June 1943, in a long freight train from Westerbork to the Sobibor death camp.[12] Aboard this sixteenth transport to Sobibor were 2,397 people - men, women and children - none of whom would survive the camp.[13]
Source personal data.[1] Address: Maasstraat 58 I, Amsterdam.[1]
Footnotes
- a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister Archiefkaarten (toegangsnurmmer 30238): Archiefkaart Leo Slager.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister Archiefkaarten (toegangsnurmmer 30238): Archiefkaart Maurits Slager.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code A_Montessori_I_002: Inschrijfboek Zesde Montessorischool 1932-1959, volgnummer 217.
- ^ SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang: 5191), inv. nr. 7410: Opgave van de 4e G.H.B. met 5 j.c. B., Ingekomen lijsten van middelbare scholen met opgave van aanwezige Joodse leerlingen.
- ^ 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. 270; Wikipedia: Klas van Anne Frank.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ NIOD, Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (toegang 182), Afdeling Onderwijs, Inrichting voor Voortgezet Onderwijs; Beoordelingen en opmerkingen van leraren inzake leerlingen, januari-juni 1942, Leerling Leo Slager , 1L2, 16 maart 1942.
- ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130374969 (Maurits SLAGER).
- ^ Wikipedia: Razzia van 20 juni 1943.
- ^ Beeldbank WO2: Amsterdam-Zuid, 20 juni 1943.
- ^ Joods Monument: Sophia Elisabeth Slager-van Thijn.
- ^ Arolsen Archives, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130374969 (Maurits SLAGER); DocID: 130374953 (Leo SLAGER).
- ^ Stichting Sobibor: Transport 16; Kamp Westerbork Digitale Collectie: Transport 29 juni 1943 - Sobibor.
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Leo Slager, 1941
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