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Rob Cohen

Rob Cohen was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

Person

  • Robert Maurits Cohen
  • Born on: Aug. 22, 1928
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: March 19, 2003
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Rob Cohen was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum. Anne thought that Rob Cohen was in love with her. Her description of him is rather unflattering.[1] In the story Do You Remember? she describes him giving her a brooch that came from his father's company. She wrote him letters when he was in hospital.[2]

His father was an interior architect and had an interior design shop, and his mother was a graphic designer. He met his wife-to-be during the period of hiding with the Zaalberg family. After the war, he turned to importing lamps, glass and ceramics from Italy and Scandinavia. Rob Cohen never wanted to read Anne Frank's diary or visit the Anne Frank House.[3]

Source personal data.[4] Addresses: Ceintuurbaan 376 bovenhuis, Amsterdam;[4] Achter Oosteinde 8.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Tales and events from the Secret Annex, "Do You Remember? Memories of my schooldays at the Jewish Lyceum", in: The Collected Works.
  3. ^  Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Cohen: Gesprek met A. Cohen-Zaalberg, 14 september 2006.
  4. a, b Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Den Haag, Centraal archief van overledenen: Persoonskaart R.M. Cohen.
  5. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Cohen: Brief A. Cohen-Zaalberg, omstreeks 2006.