Pool, Rosey E., 1905-1971

found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University for Her Papers, 1959-1967(Pool, Rosey E. (1905-1971); author, educator, and editor of anthologies of Afro-American poetry; b. Amsterdam; subsequently moved to London)

found: I lay this body down, 2022:CIP t.p. (Rosey E. Pool) galley (Dutch, Jewish, from Amsterdam; translator, an educator, and an editor; taught many pupils, including Anne Frank; she participated in a Jewish resistance group; she escaped from a Nazi transit camp; she witnessed independence movements in Nigeria and Senegal; and she was involved in the American civil rights movement; Rosey (or “Roosje,” as she still went by) grew up in a “mixed” Jewish family: her father was of East European Ashkenazi descent, while her mother was of Portuguese Sephardic descent; Rosa; changed it to the more sophisticated “Rosey” when she was a teenager; moved to London after WWII)