Simon Cohen

Simon Cohen, born 15 November 1893 in Coevorden, was a son of Mozes Cohen and Ester Mirian Roos. He was unmarried. Simon was born into a family with four children; he himself and his sister  Mirian were killed in the Shoah. His sisters Jeannette and Jacoba Dina have survived the war, but also his mother Ester Mirian Roos was killed during the Holocaust. His father, butcher by trade, passed away in…

Simon Cohen died on 29 November 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: heart failure (Herzschwäche).

Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).

Research into the wartime civil registries of one of the civil registry offices in Upper Silesias (Poland) discovered many records that corresponded to deaths of inmates from the "Reichsautobahnlager Annaburg" and "Zwangsarbeitslager Niederkirch" camps.

A certificate of death for Simon Cohen as discovered there, stated that he died on 29 November 1942  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an offi…

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…