This is not a traditional poetry album with verses, but used by Ms. Korting to let her students write something in it, in 1939.

She writes in the front: “… and not a verse, but a few rules … about yourself, your class, some nice memory of an experience during your time with me at school.”

The interesting thing is that in this album you will find all names, birth dates, addresses and often a photo of a whole class from 1939. You could research what became of all those children, how many of them survived the Second World War?

Ms. Korting

Ms. Korting (1917-2003) is also in this photo. She was born on April 23 in 1917 in the Jodenhoek in Amsterdam, she studied to become a teacher and worked from 1936-1939 as a certified teacher at the Mariaschool at the Kloveniersburgwal. She married Johan Haggenburg in 1939 with whom she had 10 children.

This album is included in the collection Egodocuments of Jules Haggenburg-Korting (1917-2003).