Rachel Cohen Rodrigues

Rachel Cohen Rodrigues was the eldest of the three children of Mietje Berlijn and Simson Cohen Rodrigues. She was born in Amsterdam on 24 September 1924 and became later a cloak stitcher by trade. She had other little siblings: Alida and Josua, who were born respectively on 8 May 1930 and on 19May 1932.

Her parents were divorced in June 1938, after which her mother and her three children moved int…

De ouders van Rachel Cohen Rodrigues waren Simson Cohen Rodrigues en Mietje Berlijn (zie haar archiefkaart bij de gemeente Amsterdam).
Rachel woonde in de Bataviastraat 17-I in Amsterdam; haar beroep was mantelnaaister.

Deportation periods in 1943

Apart from the "Sobibor period" (2 March to 20 July 1943), two deportation periods can be distinguished in 1943, viz. the period from 11 January to 2 February 1943, in which 9 transports left directly for Auschwitz, viz. 8 from Westerbork and 1 from Apeldoorn (for the sake of brevity to be called "Spring transports 1943"), and the period from 24 August to 16 November 1…