Bloeme Evers-Emden was interviewed for several television documentaries on her remembrances of Anne Frank and her family before they went into hiding and after they were sent to Auschwitz.
16 Facts About Bloeme Evers-Emden
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Bloeme Evers-Emden Emden was born on 26 July 1926 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Emanuel Emden, a diamond cutter and a socialist, and Rosa Emden-DeVries, a seamstress.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden's younger sister, Via Roosje, was born 29 May 1932.
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In 1941, Bloeme Evers-Emden attended the Jewish lyceum, where she befriended Anne Frank and her sister, Margot.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden was in the same grade as Margot, but in a different class.
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In July 1942, Bloeme Evers-Emden received a deportation order from the local government office.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden asked the school board to administer all 12 of her examinations at once, and she received her high school diploma that same day.
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At first she hid in the home of Christian friends of her parents who worked in the Dutch underground, but they were afraid that if they were arrested, Bloeme Evers-Emden would be, too.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden spent the next year hiding in 15 to 16 different places, including an Amsterdam old-age home and a job as a maid for a widow and her son in Rotterdam.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the last train leaving Westerbork on 3 September 1944.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden saw Anne, Margot and their mother regularly in Auschwitz, although she was part of a separate group of eight women who stayed together, encouraging and helping one another.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden was interviewed for her remembrances of the Frank women in Auschwitz in the 1988 television documentary The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Dutch filmmaker Willy Lindwer.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden was liberated by the Soviets at Liebau on 8 May 1945.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden discovered that her parents and sister had been deported to the Sobibor extermination camp, where they all perished.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden began studying psychology part-time and became a lecturer in psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 1973, earning her doctorate in the late 1980s.
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Bloeme Evers-Emden died in July 2016, eight days before her 90th birthday.