Mina Eismann was a daughter of Jacob Moses Eismann from Venlo and Hanchen Stein from Hannover (Germany). She was born on 16 February 1871 in Venlo and married in Den Bosch on 27 September 1895 the cloth vendor and diamond worker Philip Cohen, a son of Meijer Joseph Cohen and Rosetta de Heer, who was born in Dordrecht on 29 July 1873.
The Cohen-Eismann couple had four sons, namely Meijer in 1896, Jacob in 1898, Jozeph in 1900, all born in Amsterdam and finally Mozes was born in 1908 in Sittard. The family had left Amsterdam for Sittard in October 1907 and after the birth of Mozes, the Cohen family later went to Belgium where they lived at various addresses in Antwerp and Borgerhout.
On 9 November 1926 Philip Cohen, his wife Mina and their youngest son Mozes returned from Borgerhout in Amsterdam and moved into a house in the Boerhaavestraat 56 3rd floor. Mozes left for Batavia in the Dutch East Indies on 10 November 1931 but returned in December 1932 in Amsterdam again. He then lived again with his parents who still lived at Boerhaavestraat, but on 6 May 1933 they all moved to Nieuwe Prinsengracht 15 3rd floor and Mozes went with them. On 4 March 1935 another move followed to Nieuwe Keizersgracht 29 and on 22 December 1935 Mina’s husband Philip Cohen passed away there; he was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Mina Cohen-Eismann, now widowed, left to Camperstraat 48 2nd floor on 26 May 1937 with her son Mozes, from where Mozes got married to Dora Dreese on 26 October 1938. Mina lived subsequently for a shorter or longer period of time at different other addresses in Amsterdam, to end on 4 July 1941 at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 80.
During the round-ups early October 1942, organized by the Germans, Mina Cohen-Eismann was arrested on 1 October and already deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 2 October 1942. On arrival there on 5 October 1942 she was immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the Felix Archive of Antwerp, dossier of foreigners no.155365 for Mina Eismann and others; Cityh Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Philip Cohen, archive cards of Mina Eismann and Mozes Cohen; various residence cards of Amsterdam; website Joods Amsterdam/Nieuwe Keizersgracht; website hetstenenarchief.nl/grave Philip Cohen;the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Mina Cohen-Eismann and the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.