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Jacob Cohen

Amsterdam, – Midden-Europa,

Reached the age of 45 years

Occupation: Hairdresser

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The fate of Jacob Cohen, his wife Tilla Jocha Davidson and their son Philip Joseph Cohen.

Jacob Cohen, born on 25 December 1898 in Amsterdam, was the second of the four sons of Philip Cohen and Mina Eismann. He married in Antwerp on 20 March 1923 the Polish/Russian Tilla Jocha Davidson. She was born in Lodz on 20 August 1901 as a daughter of Srol Davidson and Frome Wolkowiski. On 2 Marcvh 1924 their son Philip Joseph was born in Antwerp.

Jacob, his parents and sibs lived already in Bel…

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Jacob Cohen and his family

In addition, a Jokos file (number 40194) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

A Liro card exists for this person or family. The original cards are kept at the Nationaal Archief (National Archive) at The Hague.

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The Cosel period.

The period from 28 August to 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called Cosel period. Deportation trains  made a stopover at the freight station of Cosel, located 80 km west of Auschwitz. During that stop, boys and men who were considered fit for work by the Germans, were usually forcibly separated from their families and taken off the train and put to work in the surrounding labor camps of Upper

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