After the summer holidays of 1941, Jewish pupils were not allowed to return to their old schools. Catholic or Protestant children were also made to leave their Christian schools if the Nazis declared they were of Jewish descent. As from 1 September, the Nazis no longer allowed Jewish children to attend school with non-Jewish children.
There were many Jewish pupils in Amsterdam. New Jewish schools were opened in which all teachers were Jewish. Other schools were reassigned. In the Transvaal neighbourhood, for instance, non-Jewish children had to leave a school because it was turned into a school for Jewish children.
91 Jewish pupils had to leave the Montessori school where Anne Frank went to school. Anne had one year of primary school left, but she was not allowed to switch to another primary school. Instead, she went straight to secondary school. She started in the first year at the Jewish Lyceum, a new school. Her sister Margot started in the fourth year.
After the summer of 1942, the number of pupils turning up for lessons became smaller and smaller. Most of them had been deported, some of them had gone into hiding. After the last raid in Amsterdam, in September 1943, the Jewish Lyceum closed its doors. There were no students or teachers left.
