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Abraham (Ab) Cauvern, birth 4 Apr 1909 Amsterdam, died 19 Jul 1986 Hilversum, son of Emanučel (Manus) Cauvern and Roosje (Rootje) Velleman
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People in and around Anne Frank's Life: an expanded list
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Remember, Anne made up false names for people, which the original published diary used. (Also, here is a list of mainly just the helpers.)
This list is not all-inclusive: that would be almost impossible. In many aspects, this list has a haphazard quality to it, which was unavoidable. Further, most references cover more details about each person than this page can.

Listed alphabetically by last name (American-style ù "van" or "de" are seen as part of the last name).

The print references often have more information about the people, they certainly have more information about things in general. Page numbers are usually for The Critical Editionù the "CE" pages. (Other pages have abbreviations for their title s ù see fully titled references at bottom). Page numbers with dates are diary entries: that date. The bottom of this page has sources of other lists and summaries of people in Anne's life. Those sources form an overlapping superset of this list.

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With an emphasis on who they were in Anne's life experience.
often mentioned in diary
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HR helped only via Resistance activities
R Resistance worker
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love
relation
Jew under Nazi rule
miscellaneous Nazi target
little kid
friendly kid/peer
friendly adult
$ father's employee
$ commerce
 authority
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P diary publication
° "degree" of separation
underlined death date means they died in a concentration camp.


Cauvern, Abraham "Ab" "Albert" (4 Apr 1909 - 15 June 1986)
An old friend of Otto's: husband of his former secretary, Isa. Anne put a copy of their daughter, Ruth's, birth announcement in her diary. He was one of the people Otto asked to edit the diary manuscript known as Typescript I. In 1947, he too k in Otto and the Gies, in his large apartment, where Otto apparently stayed until moving to Basel in mid-1952. (CE p. 63-4, 193; HLOF p. 213, 228, 238; AFR p. 249)
He was born in Amsterdam. Prior to the anti-Jewish laws, he did bookkeeping and payroll at a Hilversum radio station. (Louis Cohen had also worked there, in the music department.) Ab was the only member of his family to survive the war . It is likely he was in hiding during part of the war. His mother (Roosje), father (Emanučel), and brother Joseph died in the camps. (His other brother, Leonard, died before the occupation.) (An Anne Frank researcher sent this information. The it alicized linksare to the Joodsmonument pages which back this up.)
Regarding his first name, a researcher explained how it is that many references mistakenly call him "Albert" when his real name was Abraham: "Cauvern called himself Ab. Anyone thought it was short for Albert, as usual in Holland. The Critica l Edition took it over à due to the fact that the NIOD at that time did not have any information on Abraham Cauvern à Using his real name Abraham would be dangerous in wartime, because Abraham is a Jewish name. He then could be easily recognize d [as Jewish]."
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Isidora (Isa) Monas-(Monash)-(Monasch), birth 19 Jan 1914, died 27 Jun 1946 Amsterdam
http://www.geocities.com/afdiary/people.shtml (over mensen rond het leven van Anne Frank)
People in and around Anne Frank's Life: an expanded list
to the basic people list
Remember, Anne made up false names for people, which the original published diary used. (Also, here is a list of mainly just the helpers.)
This list is not all-inclusive: that would be almost impossible. In many aspects, this list has a haphazard quality to it, which was unavoidable. Further, most references cover more details about each person than this page can.

Listed alphabetically by last name (American-style ù "van" or "de" are seen as part of the last name).

The print references often have more information about the people, they certainly have more information about things in general. Page numbers are usually for The Critical Editionù the "CE" pages. (Other pages have abbreviations for their title s ù see fully titled references at bottom). Page numbers with dates are diary entries: that date. The bottom of this page has sources of other lists and summaries of people in Anne's life. Those sources form an overlapping superset of this list.

Key to Symbols:
With an emphasis on who they were in Anne's life experience.
often mentioned in diary
H ongoing helper
HR helped only via Resistance activities
R Resistance worker
@@ hidden in annexe
@@ hidden elsewhere
love
relation
Jew under Nazi rule
miscellaneous Nazi target
little kid
friendly kid/peer
friendly adult
$ father's employee
$ commerce
 authority
Nazi
P diary publication
° "degree" of separation
underlined death date means they died in a concentration camp.

Cauvern-Monas, Isidora "Isa" (19 Jan 1914 - 27 Jun 1946)
Wife of Ab and friend of Otto's, she was a secretary in Otto's company from 1935 until 1940. She had a daughter, Ruth, on 27 Sept 1941. She worked on retyping her husband's editing of the diary manuscript known as Typescript I. During this perio d she reportedly also died, by suicide, in June 1946. (CE p. 63-4, 193; HLOF p. 47, 213; the date she left the company came from an Anne Frank researcher.)
1) Ruth Cauvern to:
Jan Bčocker

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Abraham (Ab) Cauvern to:
Gerrie van Bockel 1st marriage 2nd marriage
living - details excluded
1) Marion Cauvern to:
Christian Dčascher
living - details excluded
2) Mirjam Cauvern to:
Johannes Maria van Daelen
living - details excluded

Family page
Abraham (Ab) Cauvern to:
N.N.
1) Petrus Cauvern
living - details excluded
to:
Johanna Maria Hoogenboom
living - details excluded
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