![]() ![]() He married an ex student of him: Debora Suzanna Appel (1 December 1913, Amsterdam – 26 March 1943, Sobibor) on 30 July 1936 in Amsterdam. Then he taught history at the newly founded Vossius Gymnasium (1926) in Amsterdam, where many prominent Dutch persons became his student. He graduated cum laude in 1926 on the origins of the Treatise of the Three Impostors. At the University he studied history, art history, and Dutch. He attended the University of Amsterdam after finishing a commercial vocational college and having worked in an office for two years. ![]() The Pressers were secular Jews, who hoped that the International socialisms In 1903 he emigrated to Antwerp for economics reasons (unemployment). His father Gerrit Presser (12 July 1874 11 AM Amsterdam - 4 August 1936, Amstelveen), was a diamond cutter. Presser was born at the Waterloopplein 17, in the pre-war Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, in a family of rather poor secular Jews. Photo: Ben Merk / Anefo, license cc-by-sa-3.0 Biography ![]()
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