Jack Cohen-Rodriguez

Jack Cohen-Rodriguez (F / Netherlands, 1930-2004), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Westerbork> <Bergen-Belsen> <Liberation of Bergen-Belsen>

Biography

Jack Cohen-Rodriguez was born in 1930. He was transported first to the Westerbork camp, then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen, Jack was sent to Barrack 211, also known as the Children's House.

Sister Luba, a Polish prisoner, saved the children and took full responsibility for the group.

When World War II was in its last months, the camp experienced a typhus epidemic. Food and water was very limited and the conditions of the barracks were poor. Jack survived. In April 1945, the British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen.

In 1962 he married Michele Rosenberg, a child who survived in hiding in France.