Peter Simonstein Cullman:
Liesbeth was unmarried, the daughter of Schlomo Siegfried and Amalie Cohn, née Schiller of Schönlanke; her siblings were Maximilian, Salli, Alfred, Irene Rosenzweig, née Cohn, and Erna Flatau, née Cohn. Her father had died 1895 in Schönlanke, and her mother in 1936.
Liesbeth's sister Irene Rosenzweig, née Cohn, born 21 October 1877 in Schönlanke, wife of Adolf Rosenzweig, had resided in Krefeld-Uerdingen am Rhein from where she was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 25 July 1942; she perished on 7 May 1944.
Her eldest sister Erna Flatau, née Cohn, born 7 November 1874 in Schönlanke. At the time of the 1939 minority census in Germany she lived in sub-let accommodation in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Stallschreiberstrasse 43, her last known address before her arrest. On 7 August 1942 she was deported as prisoner No. 3329 to the Theresienstadt Ghetto; on 26 September 1942 she was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp. The fate of her husband could not yet be documented.
Her brother Alfred, born 3 April 1879 in Schönlanke, died in Berlin of a heart attack on 31 March 1941; he was buried in the Jewish cemetery of Berlin-Weissensee.
Alfred Cohn, * 3. April 1879 in Schönlanke, died not in Berlin. He suicided on 6. January 1939 in Erlangen. He drowned himself in the river Regnitz. He is buried on the Jewish Cemetery Erlangen grave 184. He had moved from Karlsruhe to Erlangen on 2. January 1910. He became the owner of „Wäsche-, Weiß- und Wollwarengeschäft Hans Wurm Nachfolger“ in Erlangen, Hauptstr. 68. Later he moved his shop to Einhornstr. 5. He served in the Bavarian Army in Erlangen 11.10.1916-21.12.1918. Also his brother Sally lived some years in Erlangen.
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