Lidia Schöffer....... in pictures.

 

Here are some of the public documents (or a part of them) which I found online in the City Archive of Amsterdam. For other documents regarding the Schöffer family permission was required for privacy reasons. 
Lidia's mother Sara kept a sort of diary, which she referred to as "klachtenboek" (book of complaints), between 1916 and 1937. Most pictures come from that book and illustrate parts of Lidia's life.
Birth announcement of Lidia. The family was living in the Wanningstraat 11 in Amsterdam. All children were born there, first her younger brother Peter in 1920 and in 1922 the youngest son Ivo. Not long after he was born the family moved to the Hacquartstraat 6 in Amsterdam.

 

Peter and Lidia welcoming their brother Ivo.

 

Lidia, 4 months old, with nanny Mies and cat "Devil" on the balcony in the Wanningstraat.

 

Lidia at her second birthday in 1920.

 

Lidia with her brothers Peter and Ivo on the roof of their home in the Hacquartstraat 6 in December 1925.

 

1936: "Lidia comes home crying: her bag has been stolen at the C&A, when she was fitting a coat".
In the newspaper article she is only mentioned as "een andere bezoekster" (another visitor).

 

"All the women of Hacquart street 6.", 1937. Lidia (insert) was 18 at that time.

 

 

In a police log, dated November 11, 1942 her name comes up in connection with 6 gas coins.
But more interesting for us is that her profession is marked as advertising illustrator.

 

An old file card of the city of Amsterdam gave a lot of information, but here her profession is marked as "tekenares zonder", which translates as "illustrator without". There's a slight pencil stroke through illustrator and the without is placed a bit higher, so it was probably done to indicate that she was in fact without a profession and not active any longer as illustrator.

 

 

And she's probably one of the 2 women in the cover picture of the book about the family during WWII. My guess is that she is the one in the middle. But besides those years under German occupation she seems to have led a normal, quiet life. She had the education and the talent, but doesn't seem to have pursued a career as illustrator. No indication for that or other work of her was found.