Biography

About Thelma Esther Cohen-Polak

537082 and Thelma Esther Polak were married at Westerbork transit camp on 2 February 1943. He was a nurse and a son of the deceased Mozes Cohen and Sara Brandon. She was a student nurse and a daughter of Maurice Samuel Polak and Estella Arrias (deceased.) Joseph Cohen, twin brother of the bridegroom, and Berend Gustaaf Cohen, cousin of the bridegroom, served as witnesses at the wedding. They signed the marriage certificate.
Record of marriage certificates of the Westerbork Municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen

Thelma Esther Polak worked as a student nurse in the Apeldoornse Bos, where she started working on 11 November 1940.
Municipal Archives Apeldoorn, list of employees of the Apeldoornsche Bosch

See for additional information on her the website Bevrijding Intercultureel (Liberation for eveyone).