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Notes about Elsje "Elsie" Smit

Met dank aan verzetsman Jan Hof:

Elsie

Verzetsman Jan Hof herinnert zich dochter Elsie goed. “Wat was nou eigenlijk een jood? Als kind kende je alleen maar een voddenjood, en dat was iemand die zich door de stad lopend luidkeels aanbeval als koper van ouwe kleren. Dat was dus gewoon een eigennaam, net zoiets als bakker of melkboer. Elsie Smit, die gelijk met mij in 1935 voor het eerst op de ‘grote’ school kwam, was het dochtertje van een voddenjood die ook een uitdragerswinkel had, niet zo ver van ons huis.”
Hof probeerde er zijn moeder voetbalschoenen voor hem te laten kopen. Maar ze vond de aanschafprijs van 55 cent te hoog en Smit wilde zijn prijs niet laten zakken. “Een jodinnetje dus. Ik heb het jarenlang niet geweten, net zo min als dat haar broertjes, die ook op onze school zaten, jodenjongetjes waren. Daar kwam ik pas later achter. (…) Kort na de overgang naar de vijfde klas verliet ik de school (…) Elsie Smit heb ik nooit meer gezien.”

Geruime tijd na de oorlog vroeg Hof zich plotseling af hoe het Elsie Smit was vergaan. “Pittig en opgewekt, een spring-in-het-veldje, bewoog ze zich over het schoolplein, vaak proberend mij over te halen tikkertje met haar te spelen als ik met de jongens in de weer was.'
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Elsje Smit

Willem Smit
1867-1935
Debora Wagenhuijzen
1866-1935
Levie Simmeren
1874-1916
Levie Simmeren
Rebekka Levie
1883-1942
Meijer Smit
1898-1976

Elsje Smit
1929-1943


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    Historical events

    Birthday April 26, 1929

    • The temperature on April 26, 1929 was between -1.6 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
      • January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
      • April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
      • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
      • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
      • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
      • November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

    Day of death May 7, 1943

    • The temperature on May 7, 1943 was between 3.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
      • January 14 » World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
      • February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
      • April 8 » Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.
      • May 16 » The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
      • September 14 » World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
      • October 16 » Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
    

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