After the war

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.