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…
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 …
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.