Ernst van Coevorden

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

However the date of his death, 16th October 1942, is the date of the transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz.

I am the son of Ernst's youngest son:
Louis van Coevorden  who changed his name [upon arrival in Palestine in 1947 -became Israel in 1948]
to Jehuda Shimoni .
Jehuda was born in Coevorden on 3.4.1919.
Jehuda escaped from Hollandland in January 1942 [with Max Weissglas and the Sanders brothers].
first to Switzerland and then to England via occupied France, Spain -crossing the Pyrenees [oct 1943]. 

4 children :
Yetta Boem mother of Edi and Nieke[nava],
Fritz [siegfrid] van coevorden father of Efraim,
Sophie -Adina Kochba mother of Yachin and Yosef,
Louis -Jehuda shimoni father of Micha ,
Bilha and Ilan

In addition, a Jokos file (number 16290) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Aan de Friesestraat nummer 16 woonde de familie van Coevorden die bestond uit: Ernst van Coevorden en Rachel van Coevorden-Vos.  De familie van Coevorden is oorspronkelijk afkomstig uit Duitsland, Mistelfeldt. Izak Mozes, een verre grootouder kocht in 1765 samen met zijn vrouw Hendrina Salomons van Raalte burgerschap van Coevorden. Deze grootouder en zijn nakomelingen namen de naam van Coevorden a…