Ode to Willy SennebadGarden of Eden
Couplet of poem by Willy Sennebad, 'Death of a dog'
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Our opposite neighbor and gifted musician, Willy, was also called “the poetess. A special and colorful neighbor whose whole life was connected to Amsterdam East.
I remember the silent living room on the street side in Pretoriusstraat. The lofty room full of feelings where Willy's beloved mother, Mrs. Henrich, the famous piano teacher, had died. A room that no one was allowed to enter. Here her mother “lived” as if in a heaven on earth. Garden of Eden. For Willy, “Love, friendship and memory pass every boundary” was always true. The furnishings of this living room 1940s Willy later donated to the Resistance Museum.
Willy wrote poems. For example, she wrote a poem about the 1943 Razzia in Oost where she saw her neighbors taken away. Willy was “a cool woman” says an admirer. A hypersensitive woman. Willy Sennebad had one companion, her dog Tatsje, a Chihuahua. Willy died at the age of 75, just two weeks after her doggie died.
“Love, friendship and memory transcend every boundary”
Poem by Willy Sennebad 'Lament Pretoriusstraat 37 and 39'
The Garden of Eden or Garden of Eden is a place equal to the perfect and beautiful paradise. Upon the death of her little dog, she poetized
And with my dog I walk into space
And together we may tread the road
That leads easily to the Garden of Eden.
Dineke
See also other articles I wrote on Memory of East about Wille Sennebad:
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Ode by Dineke to Willy Sennebad.
Willy Sennebad was a colorful and artistic woman from Amsterdam East, for many a well-known neighborhood resident. For several years she read her poems at the May 4 commemoration on Tugelaweg.
Willy Sennebad
Willy was a musician and poet.