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Abraham Menist

Abraham Menist was a classmate of Margot Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Abraham Menist
  • Amsterdam, Nederland Nov. 18, 1924
  • Sobibor July 9, 1943

Abraham (Ab) Menist was a son of Isaac Menist (1902-1943) and Marianna de Magtige (1904-1943).[1] Abraham's father worked as a merchant in tricotage, but after his marriage in 1923 he became a merchant in angling equipment.[2] Three years after Abraham, a daughter was born: Clara (1927-1943).[3]

In October 1931, the family moved to Zandvoort. During the German occupation, the family faced anti-Jewish measures. In February 1941, the first registrations of Jews in Zandvoort began, and from March 1942 they were ordered to leave Zandvoort and move to Amsterdam.[4] Abraham then entered class 4B2 of the Jewish Lyceum: the same class that Margot Frank was in.[5] He did not stay there for long, because on 29 June 1943 all four members of the family were rounded up and deported to Westerbork.[6] On 6 July 1943, they were transported to Sobibor extermination camp in a transport with 2,417 others, who were murdered in the gas chambers immediately upon arrival on 9 July 1943.[7]

Source personal data.[1] Addresses: Nieuwe Achtergracht 113 hs, Amsterdam; Nieuwe Achtergracht 81-I; Brugstraat 3a, Zandvoort (1931); Weesperstraat 89a-I, Amsterdam (April 1942); Nieuwe Achtergracht 85-I (July 1942).[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Abraham Menist.
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten Isaac Menist en Marianna de Magtige; Joods Monument: Het lot van het gezin van Isaac Menist.
  3. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Clara Menist.
  4. ^ Joods Monument: Het lot van het gezin van Isaac Menist.
  5. ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, W.S.H. Elte (toegang 181e), inv. nr. 2f: Absentenregister klas 4BII Joods Lyceum, 1 maart – 17 juli 1942; Dienke Hondius, Absent:  herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam, 1941-1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 282
  6. ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek, DocID: 130340593 (Abraham MENIST).
  7. ^ Stichting Sobibor: Transport 17.

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