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Jacqueline van Maarsen was born in 1929, in Amsterdam, Holland, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother who adopted her husband's faith as her own.
Jopie Waalberg (13 April 1920 – 5 July 1979) was a Dutch breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and was the first woman to swim the 200.

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THE INSPIRATION OF ANNE FRANK

by Randy Berkman, Ph.D.

When a rude young man asked Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter to give a reason that humanity would be worth saving, he replied "I have read Anne Frank's Diary." When the play based on the Diary was shown to German audiences in the '50's, waves of guilt and shame were released. For the first time, the German people began to confront the events of World War II. One West German student wrote: "I am not putting it properly when I say that I was shaken by the book. No, it goes deeper than that. Many books have shaken me up which I later managed to forget. But this diary has moved me to the depths and left a permament impression. It has awakened an ideal within me that must shape whatever I do in the future." 1

A young woman from the Philippines wrote "I first read Anne's diary when I was 15. I am now 19 and of all the books in the world I cherish her diary most. Although she is not a philosopher, a Nobel prize winner, or a great contemporary thinker, she has influenced me as no one else could. I feel strongly that the diary

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Jacqueline van Maarsen

Dutch author and former bookbinder (1929–2025)

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Maarsen, not Maarsen.

Jacqueline van Maarsen
Born	Jacqueline Yvonne Meta van Maarsen (1929-01-30)30 January 1929 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died	13 February 2025(2025-02-13) (aged 96)
Occupation	bookbinder, author

Jacqueline Yvonne Meta van Maarsen (Dutch pronunciation:[ʑɑkəˈliniˈvɔnəˈmeːtaːvɑˈmaːrsə(n)]; 30 January 1929 – 13 February 2025) was a Dutch author and bookbinder. She was best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Her Christian mother was able to remove the J (Jew) signs from the family's identity cards (van Maarsen's father was Jewish) during the Second World War, thereby helping the van Maarsens escape the Nazis.

Early life

Van Maarsen was born in Amsterdam to a Dutch-Jewish father, Samuel "Hijman" van Maarsen (1884–1952), and a FrenchChristian mother, Eulalie Julienne Alice "Eline" van Maarsen (née Verlhac) (1891–1992).^[1]^[2] Van Maarsen has a sister, Christiane. Van Maarse

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A Friend Remembers Anne Frank

HOUSTON — A tattered, 1938 first edition of the Dutch version of the board game Monopoly takes Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen Sanders back to a time before her best childhood friend, Anne Frank, became an icon of Holocaust history.

Van Maarsen, now 72, met Frank when the girls were 12-year-old students at a segregated Jewish school in Amsterdam. They shared competitive games of “Monopoly,” books and movie-star postcards in the year before Frank went into hiding, facing adolescence in a time of Nazi terror.

Van Maarsen, identified by her nickname “Jopie” in Frank’s famous diary, still lives in Amsterdam. She also still has the board game, books she shared with Frank, an original copy of a poem Frank wrote and two letters Frank wrote to her while in hiding.

Those artifacts were on exclusive display at the Holocaust Museum Houston through last week. It was the first time they were displayed in the United States.

“There’s nothing else left of our very close friendship,” said Van Maarsen, author of 1990’s “My Friend Anne Frank.” Van Maarsen