Sophie de Vries-de Boer

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Sophie de Vries (1911)

Sophie Adriana Juliette de Vries de Boer (born June 19, 1882 in Rotterdam , † February 11, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a Dutch actress.

Life

Sophie de Boer was a daughter of the actress Esther de Boer-van Rijk. At the age of twelve she was already playing at the Nederlandsche Toneelvereeniging Theater and, after graduating from drama school in 1901, stayed at this theater until 1907. She married Hartog de Vries (1881-1944) and only had engagements on various Dutch theaters from 1923 after an interruption due to motherhood. In 1934 she had a role in the film Op hoop van zegen based on the play of the same name by Herman Heijermans , her mother played the lead role.

During the time of the German occupation of the Netherlands , from 1940 onwards she was only allowed to appear at the Jewish cabaret theater of the Joodsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam for racist reasons . She and her husband were arrested and in February 1944 deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , where both were killed.

Her son Martijn de Vries (1913–1943) was killed in April 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp . Her daughter Hesje de Vries (1905–1968) survived the Holocaust .

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 418.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esther de Boer-van Rijk (1853-1937) see Dutch Wikipedia nl: Esther de Boer-van Rijk
  2. ^ Joodsche Schouwburg, see Hollandsche Schouwburg . See also Dutch Wikipedia nl: Hollandsche Schouwburg
  3. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 418.
  4. ↑ Hesje de Vries at IMDb


personal data
SURNAME Vries-de Boer, Sophie de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boer, Sophie Adriana Juliette de Vries de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp