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…
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 between 28 August till 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called “Kozel-period”. Named as such, as a number of transports with deported Jews from Belgium, France and Holland were stopped at Kozel station, about 80 km west from Auschwitz, where the Germans unloaded men who were suitable …