This is the housing card of the apartmentblock where Barbara and her family lived. The address was Noorder Amstellaan 37, now called Churchilllaan 37.
In this block there were three floors with houses.

Mrs. Schotte left her house in 1944 to visit family members in the southern part of the country. After the battle at Arnhem she was unable to return home. Her house was then used by secret agent Tobias Biallosterski who had his HQ here and lived here with his staff. After he was arrested the house was cleared on 11-02-1945.

 First Floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Name

Born

 Men

Women

From

Date

 To

Date

 Jan Vos

 1889

 1

 1

Hilversum

03-02-1931

Lekstraat 6HS 

20-09-1932

Willem Abraham Schotte (wid)

 1865

 -

 1

Haarlemmermeerstr. 167I

21-10-1932

Dintelstraat 102I

15-03-1945

 Everhardus Schotte (son)

 1898

 2

 1

 Roxana

15-12-1932

 Rouen, France

01-06-1933

 Everhardus Schotte

 1898

 2

 1

 Tjepoe, Java (D.E.I.)

25-08-1936

 The Hague

02-01-1937

Partner Smit, nee Schaumann, Gerard

 1910

-

 1

N. Amstellan 312II

23-08-1945

Coghlans (Can)

16-05-1947

 Frits Sandelowsky

 1916

 3

 1

 Churchilllaan 2I

23-06-1947

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Second Floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johanna A.G. Gospers Wiersema

 1888

 3

 2

 Groningen

1930/1931

family 7

13-05-1937

Emil Breslauer

 1887

4

3

 Breslau

25-04-1933

Meutluigenplein 1HS

15-09-1933

 Mathies Petrus J.C. Wiersema

 1885

 2

 2

 

13-05-1937

 Haarlemmermeer

15-09-1938

Louise B. Junkers

 1895

 -

 2

 de Bilt (Utrecht)

27-09-1938

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Third Floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Johannes L. van Heck

 1896

 1

 1

 Barcelona

24-04-1931

 Porto

24-09-1932

Franz A.I. Ledermann

 1889

1

3

 Zandvoort

14-12-1933

WESTERBORK

01-11-1943

 Jacob R.W. Sinninghe

 1904

1

-

N. Amstellaan 48HS

23-10-1944

 Dintelstraat 2A

02-10-1945

 Barbara Ledermann

 1925

-

1

 from family 6

 

 Koningslaan 14HS

16-11-1945

Maria Steenbergen

 1911

-

1

N. Amstellaan 48HS

23-10-1944

 

 

 Hans L. IJkema

 1917

1

1

 Weesperzijde 13HS

30-03-1948

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Is Maria Steenbergen the woman Barbara writes about? Maria was born 01-12-1911 in Amsterdam. She was married to Jacob Rudolph Willem Sinninghe, born 30-03-1904 Roermond. Married Maria 04-06-1931 in Amsterdam. They divorced 19-12-1944 Amsterdam. Maria remarried with Hans Louis IJkema, born 14-11-1917 Groningen. Marriage took place on 30-03-1948 Amsterdam. Maria Steenbergen was a journalist.
She might have known Barbera since she had lived in an apartment nearby at Noorder Amstellaan 48HS. Maria died in 1990 on the island Schiermonnikoog.

J.R.W. Sinninghe, who began his career as a journalist and publicist, became especially famous for his popular provincial folk-tale books, which he compiled before and during the Second World War. These consist of eight substantial volumes covering Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Utrecht, Holland, Zeeland, North Brabant, and Limburg.
Thanks to the pro-German professor Jan de Vries, Sinninghe received an appointment at the Meertens Institute (which at the time was still called the Folklore Committee of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) during and shortly after the Second World War, from 1941 to 1947. At the institute, he worked among other things on the only national catalogue of folk-tales ever published in the Netherlands—though it was written in German: Katalog der niederländischen Märchen-, Ursprungssagen-, Sagen- und Legendenvarianten (1943). This catalogue in particular, as well as several scholarly articles, earned him international recognition. The material Sinninghe worked with during this period was already part of the Meertens collection.

After the Second World War, Sinninghe fell into disfavor within the Dutch academic world because of his membership in the Kultuurkamer and his cultural collaboration, especially in the eyes of scholars such as P.J. Meertens and J.J. Voskuil.



The woman who is also mentioned who was living below them was Louise Bertha Junkers, born 25-07-1893 Krefeld, Germany. Married Gustav Ernst Biermann, devorced 1918.
Remarried 22-05-1918 The Hague Frits Vredenrijk-Engelenburg, born 24-06-1890 Apeldoorn, died 04-12-1978 The Hague. Divorced 21-07-1928 The Hague.
Moved to Amstrdam, Noorder-Amstellaan 37II on 27-09-1938. Received identitycard number 260613 on 04-07-1941 in Amsterdam. Moved back to The Hague 01-03-1973 to Theo Mann Bouwmeesterlaan 10. She had two daughters with Frits: Marie Mathilde and Hedwig Christine.



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