Oosterlaan 19

Since March 2017, in front of Oosterlaan 19, three Stolpersteine commemorate Sekkel Cohen (born Delfzijl 1885), his wife Frida Betti Salomon (born Delfzijl 1908) and their daughter Lena Helga (born Zwolle 1932). All three were murdered on 14 May 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp.
Sekkel was first married to Elisabeth de Jonge, who died in 1929. Their daughter Hanna Rosette (born Kampen 1919) was a nurse at the Joodsche Invalide in Amsterdam. She perished in Sobibor on July 16, 1943.
Sekkel married Frida Betti on 11 August 1931 in Stendel, Germany. Frida had worked as a shorthand typist and costumière, Sekkel worked at the beginning of the war as a civil servant in the province of Overijssel.
At the unveiling of the Stolpersteine, Erik Jungerius, head of operations at the province of Overijssel, spoke the following words:
''As a resident of Zwolle you can be confronted in different ways with the impact that the Holocaust had on the Jewish inhabitants of our city. Coincidentally, as an inner city resident, I was present last September at the unveiling of the Stolpersteine in front of my own house on Wolweverstraat, because that house was the last residence of the Lippers family in the 1940s.
Six months later I am here at 19 Oosterlaan, the last address of the Cohen family. This time the link with the Jewish past is through my work. I stand here as a member of the management of the province of Overijssel to commemorate a former colleague. The father of the Cohen family, Sekkel Cohen, was an official at our organization at the time of the outbreak of the Second World War.
Unfortunately, little is known about Sekkel Cohen's career with the province, but it is clear that he had reached the rank of chief commies before he was dismissed by order of the German occupier in 1942. We know that because the archives still contain a report of the apparently neat redundancy pay scheme that was drawn up for this purpose. With great bureaucratic precision, the costs of this redundancy scheme have been set at 258 guilders and 39 cents per month.
The history of Sekkel Cohen is therefore a typical example of the way in which the Germans gradually placed the Jewish community in social isolation in the run-up to the Holocaust. Jewish children were denied access to regular schools, Jewish families had to shop in separate shops and Jewish colleagues disappeared from the workplace.
But the resignation of Sekkel Cohen is also an illustration of the way in which the Dutch governments approached the German occupier. We could characterize that attitude as one of naive law-abiding. Unfortunately, we have to conclude that this also applied to the province of Overijssel. The government of the province of Overijssel, like many lower authorities in the early years of the occupation, was initially convinced that cooperation with the Germans was necessary to prevent worse.
When the intentions of the German occupier gradually became clear, the administrative resistance against the German measures also increased, which led to the resignation of the Commissar in August 1941, who was replaced the same day by a member of the NSB. The province was under National Socialist rule for the rest of the war.
To what extent a less cooperative attitude on the part of the Dutch governments, especially at the beginning of the war, could ultimately have saved the lives of Jewish fellow citizens is one of the questions of history that will never be answered.
However, this meeting is not intended to speculate about the course of history, but to commemorate my provincial colleague and our Zwolle fellow citizen Sekkel Cohen, his wife Frieda Betti Cohen-Salomon and their 11-year-old daughter Lena Helga Cohen who all died in May 1943. died in Sobibor''.

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