Child of Jacobus Coezijn and his family

In addition, a Jokos file (number 25014) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Yehudit Shendar

■   Just before Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012, in the wake of the national “Gathering the Fragments” campaign, Iris First (née Coezijn) came to the Museum of Holocaust Art at Yad Vashem.

She was carrying a book, and inside it an age-worn sheet of paper.“I waited a long, long time, before deciding on this moment,” explained an emotional First, pointing at the image in the caricatur…