Hartog Cohen

Hartog is een zoon van Nagman Cohen en Selly de Vries. Hij trouwde 18 oktober 1922 met Catharina Velt (A'dam, 19 februari 1892), dochter van Marcus Velt en Klaartje Lisser.Hij was restaurateur van antieke schilderijen.

Hartog woonde voor de oorlog op de Prinsengracht 862 bhs.

1943: Westerbork
1944: Theresienstadt

Hartog overleeft de oorlog. Na de oorlog blijft hij in Amsterdam wonen, vanaf mei…

I can say in the decades that I have been a Shoah researcher, I have never come across anything like the case of Hartog Cohen.

According to Yad Vashem, Hitler himself ordered Hartog Cohen and his family to be protected at all costs.

By this point in his life, Hartog had become quite well-known in art restoration circles. The Reich had stolen a lot of art, and a lot of that art was damaged during t…