Julianalaan 141

Jansje Ossedrijver was born in Amsterdam in 1891. Her father was a diamond cutter there. She came from a large family of which a number of children died at a young age, at that time there was still a high infant mortality rate, especially in poorer families. On 7 October 1940 she moved from Amsterdam to 141 Julianalaan in Bilthoven. During the war years, the Julianalaan was renamed after Frederik Hendriklaan.

She was not married and I was unable to find out what the reason for her move to Bilthoven was and what her profession was. Johanna Leendertz-Haust, a widow, not a war victim, lived in this house from 1938 to 1944.

In 1941 the Jews in the Netherlands were increasingly restricted in their freedoms. In mid-1942, the Jewish residents of the municipality of De Bilt were forced to move to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam they had to deal with more far-reaching freedom-restricting measures. After a call to report, after a house search or after a raid, Camp Westerbork became the next station for them on the road to destruction.

That is how the Jansje Ossedrijver also fared.

On March 14, 1942 she was forced to move to Amsterdam, to Minervaplein 73 III. A year later, on April 20, 1943, she arrived in Westerbork and on April 27, 1943 she was deported from Westerbork to Sobibor. Being locked in a cattle car crammed with people for three days must have been a miserable journey. There are no survivors from this transport, it is assumed that all were murdered in the gas chambers immediately after arrival on April 30, 1943. So is Jansje Ossedrijver, 53 years old.

Jansje Ossedrijver was single and, according to the registration in the population register, without a profession. She came from a large, probably poor family and had two brothers and three sisters. As was especially the case with the less wealthy Amsterdam Jewish families, they all did not survive the war. There are three surviving children of her sister Henrica Drukker-Ossedrijver, but I have not been able to contact possible next of kin through this line.

Jansje Ossedrijver has lived in Bilthoven for a little less than a year and a half, we assume that this was her last voluntarily chosen home address.

By laying this stumbling block and by telling the story, we want to contribute to ensuring that Jansje Ossedrijver and the unimaginably great injustice that was done to her do not fade into oblivion.

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