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Lida Cohen

Lida Cohen was a granddaughter of Mrs Stoppelman, the landlady of Jan and Miep Gies.

Person

  • Alida Rinie Cohen
  • Born on: Nov. 9, 1935
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died in: Bilthoven (of Utrecht), Nederland

Alida Rinie (Lida/Lideke)[1] Cohen was a granddaughter of Mrs Stoppelman, landlady of Jan and Miep Gies. She was the daughter of Louis Samuel Cohen and Froukje Stoppelman. The family with two children was arrested at Central Station. The parents were sent via Westerbork to Auschwitz. Lida and her brother were taken by an unknown person to the address Hunzestraat 25.[2] At her hiding address Lida fell ill. On 22 December 1943 her grandmother wrote to her family that she had bronchitis. On 9 January 1944 she had already died and been buried. On 30 January 1944 her grandmother wrote: 'Dear sister plays in God's flock, her grave a flower garden'. Because correspondence through the Red Cross was slow, it took a long time before the grandfather in England was informed of his grandchild's illness and death.[3] According to her uncle Max Stoppelman, a doctor who had been summoned found out that she was a Jewish child and did not return. Thus, according to this version, she died of diphtheria.[3]

Bron persoonsgegevens.[4][5] Addresses: Vaartweg 44, Hilversum; Hunzestraat 25hs, Amsterdam.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to her as L. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 17 April 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ USC Shoa Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education, Interview M. Stoppelman, nr. 3780, vanaf ± 00.45.00.
  3. a, b Correspondentie Rode Kruis, nrs. 354383, 360851 en 47392/43 (verso). Also see: Joods Monument: Alida Rinie Cohen.
  4. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart L.S. Cohen.
  5. ^  Correspondentie via Rode Kruis, nrs. 356418 en 360851.