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Josef Cohen

Josef Cohen was a writer whose books were read by Anne Frank.

Josef Cohen was a Dutch writer and librarian.[1] On 14 June 1942, Anne writes that she received the second volume of Cohen's Nederlandse Sagen en Legenden (Tales and legend from the Netherlands) for her birthday. She also received a copy of Hildebrand's Camera obsura, but she exchanged it for the first volume of Tales and legends.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Josef Cohen.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 14 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.