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Herbert Cohen
Father´s imprisonment
Flight to the Netherlands
Separation from Margot
Arrival at Westerbork
Banning the festivals
Spare time, school & work
Conditions in Westerbork
Fear of Deportation
Deportation
Fate of family members
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Herbert Cohen

Fate of family members?



Herbert’s parents were deported from Goch on 10.26.1941 to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. They survived there for a further year until their subsequent deportation to Chelmo. New arrivals at Chelmo were loaded directly into specially constructed trucks. They were sealed and the exhaust gas was fed directly into the passenger compartment. Thus all passengers were gassed to death. Jacob and Else Cohen were murdered in this manner on 7th May 1942.

Sister Margot Cohen survived the war with a foster-family in Amsterdam. Post-war she went to live with an aunt in Haiti. Later they moved to the USA where Margot met her husband Irwin Keinon. They were blessed with two children an seven grand-children

Herbert’s maternal grandparents, Emil and Caroline Kern, who had lived with their daughter between 1938 and 1939 died in the Gurs concentration-camp in Vichy France. Jakob Cohen’s mother Henriette Cohen died at the Vught concentration-camp in the occupied Netherlands. Other sisters of Jakob Cohen were killed in various concentration camps.


Fate of family members in the Netherlands



  • Edith and Gottlieb Franck
    were the children of Margot´s aunt Berta Franck, née Cohen, and her husband Paul. The family lived in Düsseldorf. In the Beginning of 1939 the parents sent their children to the Netherlands to safety. On the 19th of January 1939 they came tho the house of Jacob de Wijze in Nimegen, a cousin of Jacob Cohen. On the 23rd of January they were taken to a Childrens home (Quarantine Beneden Heijplaat, Quarantainestraat 1, Rotterdam) in Rotterdam. On the 27th of Marh 1939 Edith was taken to a Childrens home for girls at Rapenburgerstraat 171 in Amsterdam. Her brother Gottlieb went to the Childrens home for boys at Amstelstraat 21 in Amsterdam. In 1943 they were deported via Westerbork to the death camp Sobibor and were killed shortly after their arrival on the 5th of March 1943.

    Their parents were deportet to Minsk in 1941 and died.

  • Erich Cohen
    Erich Cohen was a cousin of Margot and Herbert. His father Abraham Cohen was a brother of Jacob Cohen, father of Margot and Herbert. Abraham Cohen and his wife Else lived in Kaldenkirchen close to the dutch border. When Abraham Cohen returned from Dachau at the end of 1938, he decided to send his son to saftey in the Netherlands. He send his son Erich to his uncle Jacob in Goch. On the 29th of December the children arrived in the Childrens Refugee home Soesterberg. Like Herbert and Margot he went to a Childrens home in Amsterdam (Burgerweeshuis, St. Luciensteeg/Kalverstraat 92, Amsterdam). On the 20th of October 1939 Eric moved to Appeldoorn to live with fosterparents. He stayed until March 1940, when he went back to the Childrens home in Amsterdam. Shortly after the invasion of German troops in the Netherlands, he was taken on one of the last "Kindertransports" to Great Britain. He stayed for some time in another childrens home, until his uncle Joseph came and took him to his family home near London.

    Eric's parents Abraham and Else Cohen were taken from Kaldenkirchen to Ghetto Riga in December 1941. Eric´s mother Else died on the first of October 1941 in Concentration Camp Stutthof. The time and place of death of Abraham Cohen is unknown.


  • Jacob de Wijze
    Jacob de Wijze (21.4.1891 Beugen) was a cousin of Jacob Cohen. Jacobs Cohens mother Henriette and Jacob de Wijzes mother Sibilla, née Devries ,were sisters, who were born in Kaldenkirchen. Jacob de Wijze moved from Boxmeer (NL) to Nimegen (Pontanusstraat 27). He was a cattle dealer and was director of an Abatoir. During the war many refugee children lived at his house. In 1942 he and his wife were taken to Camp Westerbork (NL). From there they were deported to Auschwitz, were they were murdered on  arrival on the 19th of february 1942. His three children survived the war.


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Margot Cohen

Margot Cohen

Elise und Margot Cohen

 Herbert andMargot´s parents

Edith Franck

Edith Franck
23.5.1928
Düsseldorf
flight to the Netherlands
murderd 5.3.1943
Sobibor
(B3)

Gottlieb Franck

Gottlieb Franck
21.6.1931
Düsseldorf
flight to the Netherlands
murderd 5.3.1943
Sobibor
(B4)

Erich Cohen

Erich Cohen
2.4.1928
Kaldenkirchen
1940
Kindertransport
Great Britain
(B5)

Annie van Praag - Yadvashem

Jacob de Wijze
his wife Sarah and their children
 Elly, Kitty und Louis
(B6)





Dateiname:
HC_011.html
Datum:
18.05.2015
Erstellt von :
Collin Schmitz
Text von:
Gereon Gacionis, Niels Verbunt
Fotografien:
B1 Margot - Ausschnitt aus einem Bild des Jüdisch Historischem Museum in Amsterdam
JHM 00004527_q )
B2 - Eltern- Stadtarchiv Goch,