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Margot Cohen
My life in Goch
Burning of the synagogue
Flight to the Netherlands
Refugee Orphange
My Foster parents
The invasion
Restrictions
Razzia
Schouwburg
The rescue
After the war
My request
Sources

Margot Cohen

The Rescue


I spend two long weeks in the Creche. At last my foster parents could take me home. My foster father was jewish as well Annie was catholic. That´s why she undertook dealing with the burocracy. Every day she went to different places to get me free. Finally she was successfull. From then on she was officially declared to be my Foster mother and took over all responibilities for me. This was my rescue. I was so happy to be with them again (1).

Garten der Gerechten Yad Vashem

Honourary plaque for Annie van Praag
in the garden of the Righteous Gentiles  (Yad Vashem)

Annie van Praag received the honourary titel "Righteous Gentile" in 1974.
Margot Cohen applied for it in Yad Vashem. In the Garden of the Righteous Gentiles a plaque was installed and a tree  planted for Anni van Praag.
 (B1)



  • (1) 1974 wurde Annie van Praag auf Antrag von Margot Cohen in die "Liste der Gerechten" aufgenommen. Dies ist ein Ehrentitel, die während der Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten ihr Leben dafür einsetzten eine jüdische Person zu retten. Die Medaille wurde ihr in Amsterdam von Jigal Yadin übergeben.
    In Yad Vashem wurde im Garten der Gerechten unter den Völkern für Annie  Namensplakette angebracht und Baum gepflanzt.
    http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/statistics/netherlands.pdf
  • (2) Email von Gerda Russel, geb. van Praag an Jessie Wolfe vom 8.1.2013 über die Rettung von Margot Cohen aus der Schouwburg
  • (3) Informationen über die Verleihung des Ehrentitels an Annie van Praag (Yad Vashem)
    http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/righteousName.html?language=en&itemId=4017022



Herzogenstraße 8

Schouwburg Amsterdam

The former theater Schouwburg was used as an assembly  point during the war.
(B2)

Yadvashem - Annie van Praag - Ehrentitel

Ceremony in Amsterdam 1974

(B3)

Schouwburg Amsterdam

Jigal Yadin congratulates Annie van Praag
(B4)

Annie van Praag - Yadvashem

Planting ceremony
(B5)

Annie van Praag - Yadvashem

Tree for Annie van Praag in the Garden of the Righteous Gentiles
(B6)





Filename:
mc_11.html
Date:
22.05.2015
Created by :
R. Warrener
Text from:
Tamara Eichhofer und Alessandra Crotty - nach Judy Hoffman, Joseph and me, In the Days of the Holochaust, KTAV Publishing Company Inc., 1979, ISBN 0-87068-655-0
Translation
Graham Warrener
Fotografien:
B1, B3 - B6-  Bilder zur Verleihung des Ehrentitels "Gerechte unter den Völkern für Annie van Praag 1975 - (c) Yadvashem  - http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/righteousName.html?language=en&itemId=4017022

B2 - Andreas Praefke CC BY 3.0