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Jacqueline van Maarsen

Dutch author and bookbinder

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born: 1929
died: 2025
age at death: 96
known for: writer, bookbinder

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Jacqueline Yvonne Meta van Maarsen was a Dutch author and bookbinder. She was best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Her Christian mother was able to remove the J (Jew) signs from the family's identity cards during the Second World War, thereby helping the van Maarsens escape the Nazis.

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