IJssellaan 144

Rudolf Cohn (73) and Anna Cohn-Eschelbacher (59) lived at IJssellaan 144 for a year and a half. Selma Löwenstein (68) lived here for ten months.
Rudolf was born on October 13, 1869 in Posen, Anna on June 4, 1883 in Hardheim. On August 6, 1903, they were married in her hometown. Rudolf was a merchant. In 1933 the couple moved from Koblenz to Düsseldorf.
In 1939 they fled the Nazi terror to the Netherlands and went to live in The Hague. In May 1940 they witnessed the beginning of the occupation of the Netherlands in this city. As foreign refugees, they had to leave the coastal region from September of that year. They moved to Gouda in early March 1941.
First they lived on Krugerlaan, then from the end of June for two months on Sophiastraat. The young Heumann-Fuchs couple also moved into that house that month.
On September 9, 1941, Rudolf and Anna moved again, this time to IJssellaan 144. They stayed here for a year and a half. After just two months, the German Nazi regime made them stateless as Jews living outside Germany. It didn't stop here. The Dutch occupation administration issued increasingly far-reaching anti-Jewish measures.
Most of the Jewish townspeople were rounded up and deported during the eight-month raids from September 1942 onwards. The Cohns had a respite until early April 1943.
During the major raid of April 9, 1943, the Jewish retirement home on the Oosthaven was evacuated and about fifty Jews from other addresses were arrested. Rudolf and Anna also had to come along. In an official report of the Gouda agents Oudenaarden and Van der Vlies, they are neatly listed in the middle of a group of approximately one hundred arrested Jewish Gouwenaars. The reason for this arrest was given by these agents: 'evacuation to Westerbork'.
After a train journey of almost 24 hours, the couple were imprisoned in this transit camp. Ten days later, on April 20, they were deported to Sobibor. Here Rudolf and Anna were murdered immediately upon arrival on April 23, 1943. Two weeks after their arrest in Gouda.
Selma Löwenstein (68) lived here for ten months. She was born on March 1, 1874 in Hamburg. In 1939 she fled to the Netherlands and went to live in Rotterdam. She too had to leave the coastal strip as a foreign refugee from September 1940. At the end of February 1941 she came to Gouda. First she lived on the Karnemelksloot for a month, then nine months on the Lange Tiendeweg.
On December 17, 1941, Selma moved into the house at 144a IJssellaan, where the Cohn-Eschelbacher couple had been living for just two months. Selma would stay here for ten months. As a Jew living outside Germany, she had already been made stateless by the German Nazi regime. Like her housemates, she too must have suffered from the anti-Jewish measures of the occupation regime. For example, public places were forbidden for them and from May 1942 they had to visibly wear a Star of David on their clothing. Then from July/August 1942 came the threat of raids for the forced transport of Jews from Westerbork. She wouldn't have much time left.
In a police daily report of Wednesday, October 21, 1942, you see Selma's name. She was arrested in a group of nineteen Jewish Gouwenaars. It was the umpteenth 'arrest of Jews' by police officers Oudenaarden and Van der Vlies of the political police. The arrested were transported to Amsterdam by nine police officers from Gouda. "No details," an agent reported on his return. The group will have been locked up in the overcrowded Hollandsche Schouwburg for another week. Selma was then imprisoned in Westerbork on October 30. Within days she was deported to Auschwitz. There she was killed on November 5, 1942 immediately after arrival. Also two weeks after her arrest in Gouda.
Now three Stolpersteine in the sidewalk in front of IJssellaan 144 remind of the name and fate of the couple Rudolf and Anna and housemate Selma.

یادشده در اینجا

آیا سنگی در اینجا آسیب دیده یا گم شده است؟ با ایمیل به ما خبر دهید