Hogestraat 13

The merchant Moritz Cohen was born on July 7, 1890 in Neustadtgödens (D). With his wife Dina Japhet, born on May 13, 1888, he came to Aalten from Bocholt (D) on August 28, 1933. On October 15, 1937 in the building Landstraat 8 a textile shop, called "De Winkelmarkt". In 1940 the family lived at 13 Hoogestraat.

Moritz and Dina had two daughters and a son. The oldest daughter was called Margaret; she came with her parents from Bocholt to Aalten, but moved to Amsterdam a short time later and married Erich Grünebaum. This couple survived the war and emigrated to Argentina. The second daughter, Karolina, came to Aalten from Berlin shortly after her parents and married cattle merchant Aron Weijel. They also survived the war and returned to Aalten. Son Bernhard came to Aalten from Oldenburg (D) in 1935 and worked here as a butcher. Dina's mother Karoline Japhet-Eppstein, born April 15, 1853 in Gehaus in Thüringen (D), also fled to Aalten in 1937 at an advanced age to move in with her daughter and son-in-law.

Dina Cohen-Japhet passed away in August 1942; she was buried in Aalten. Moritz and his son Bernhard went into hiding with a farmer in the neighborhood of De Wolboom, but were betrayed in July 1943 and deported via Westerbork to Sobibor, where they were murdered on July 23, 1943; they became 53 and 26 years old, respectively.

Mother-in-law Karoline Japhet-Eppstein had been picked up shortly before that, on April 10, was taken by taxi to Westerbork and then transported further to Sobibor in a cattle wagon. She was murdered on April 23, 1943, aged 90.

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