Biography

About Carolina Cohen-ten Brink

Carolina Cohen-Ten Brink was married to Samson Cohen. The couple had seven children. In 1879 their son George was born. He died at the age of 57. The other children were Rosina Cohen, Lisette Cohen, Daniel Cohen, Rika Cohen, Estelle, Bertha Cohen.
Carolina Cohen-ten Brink became a widow before the war. During the war she was in a wheel-chair. Carolina Cohen-ten Brink was arrested together with her great-granddaughter Theodora Paula Heertje in Enschede.
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Carolina ten Brink, widow of Samson Cohen, lived with her daughters Rosina Cohen and Rika Cohen on the Noordwal 3 in Oldenzaal.
Carolina Cohen-ten Brink died on 6 April 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and she was cremated on 9 April 1943. The urn with her ashes was placed on the Jewish cemetry in Diemen on field U, row 4, grave nr. 13.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789

Lijst van in de concentratiekampen Westerbork en Buchenwald overleden Joodsche Personen die op Nederlandsche begraafplaatsen ter aarde werden besteld; NIOD, archief Westerbork, port. 1, map 1

In addition, a Jokos file (number 14462) on this person is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.


This person is commemorated on a memorial in Oldenzaal. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.