Louise Lucienne Cohen was the only daughter of Isidor Cohen and Betje Nenk. Her parents married, presumably in the year 1925 or 1926 in Rotterdam, but left then afterwards to Paris. There Louise Lucienne was born on 5 November 1926. Returned in Rotterdam, her father passed away at the very young age of 24 years on 21 November 1927. He was interred in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam.

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In addition, Jokos files (numbers 17715, 5887) on this household or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos files reveal that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 12213/6219).

Loods 24 was a port warehouse on the site of the Municipal Commercial Establishments between the Binnenhavenm (Inner port) and the Spoorweghaven (Railway port) in Rotterdam. The shed was used for the storage of tobacco. During the Second World War it was used by the Germans as a meeting place for the deportation of Jews.

In 1941, 11,000 Jews still lived in Rotterdam. Before the war this was 13,000…

With the date of 30 September 1942, it must be taken into account that this is a legal date, established by the Dutch government after the war, but that the actual date of death was not known at that time and may have occurred at an earlier time. From testimonies of  survivors who were familiar with the circumstances there, and others, it has been established that the date of 30 September 1942 sho…

Louise Lucienne Cohen, roepnaam Lou Lou, was het vriendinnetje van Lies den Houting, die tijdens de oorlog een stripdagboek tekende. In december 2021 publiceerde het NIOD over het stripboek: https://www.niod.nl/nl/blog/een-stripdagboek-met-de-oorlog-op-de-achtergrond. In het artikel haalt Lies den Houting herinneringen op aan Lou Lou:

"‘Ik had een Joods vriendinnetje. We zaten in dezelfde klas. C…