Simon Cohen

Simon Cohen was the son of Sara Cohen-Sousman.
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This person is commemorated on a memorial in Cuyk. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

Sara Cohen-Sousman was a widow. Her husband Jacob Cohen died in 1913. From their marriage at least the following children were born: Gertruij, Simon, Joseph, Cientje, David, Benjamin, Marjana, Isidoor, Betsij, Julia and one child of whom it is not certain whether it survived the war. In 1939, her sister and brother-in-law, who fled Germany, moved in with her.
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"Arbeitslager Oud Leusden” was a labor camp near Camp Amersfoort. The official name of Camp Amersfoort was” Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort”, abbreviated PDA.

From 18 August 1941, the PDA was in use until the spring of 1943, when it was closed for a short time to be renovated and expanded and more and more prisoners were sent to Amersfoort. They all had to be put to work. Companies in the…

The person who is mentioned on this page, belonged to a group of approximately 70 men who were “lent” from the Vught concentration camp to the PDA, the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort, on 20 May 1943. They were housed and put to work in the Labor camp “Oud Leusden”, to dig a shooting range for tanks at the Infantry Barracks on the corner of Van Campenstraat in Amersfoort. Because of their…