Evelina Kosmen was a daughter of Barend Kosman and Leentje Pachter. She married Salomon Lopes Salzedo in Amsterdam on 28 August 1929, a son of Samuel Lopes Salzedo and Eva Pachter. Evelina and Salomon had three children: Eva, Bernard and Samuel. All three of them, together with their mother, have been killed in Auschwitz on 8 October 1942. Her husband Salomon lost his life in concentration camp Buchenwald on 23 February 1945.
Evelina was born into a family with six children. Her sister Betsie and brother Gerhard have survived the Holocaust. However, her siblings Michel, Maurits and Evelina have been killed in the Shoah.
City archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Evelina Kosman and Salomon Lopes Salzedo; family registration card of Barend Kosmen.