Nathan van Coevorden

Jeannette Porcelijn was a daughter of Salomon Porcelijn and Rika Augurk. As the 3^rd in a family of seven children, she was born in Amsterdam on 17 August 1907 and worked there as a seamstress. On 2 August 1933 she married there Nathan van Coevorden, a son of Abraham van Coevorden and Rozette Driels. Nathan was born in Groningen on 7 November 1889 and he was employed as a clerk in a paper trade. Na…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 6602) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

The period from 28 August to 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called Cosel period. Deportation trains  made a stopover at the freight station of Cosel, located 80 km west of Auschwitz. During that stop, boys and men who were considered fit for work by the Germans, were usually forcibly separated from their families and taken off the train and put to work in the surrounding labor camps of Upper…