Henriette Cohen
Henriette Cohen | |
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| Born | 17 August 1917 Marseille, France |
| Died | 25 June 2019 (aged 101) Marseille, France |
| Other names | Henriette Bensadon |
Henriette Cohen (1917 – 2019) was a Nazi concentration camp survivor. She died at the age of 101.
Cohen née Bensadon was born on 17 August 1917 in Marseille.[1] She was arrested in a Gestapo raid in May 1944 and then sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Sources differ on if she was held at Auschwitz concentration camp[2] or Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.[1]
Cohen survived at returned to France and her husband and two children, who survived in hiding. She had four more children.[3]
Cohen died on 25 June 2019 in Marseille. Obituaries refer to her as France’s oldest Auschwitz survivor.[4][2][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Henriette Bensadon". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ a b "Henriette Cohen, France's eldest Auschwitz survivor, dies at 101". The Globe and Mail. 28 June 2019. Archived from the original on 9 June 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ "Décès de Henriette Cohen". Élysée (in French). 28 June 2019. Archived from the original on 17 May 2025. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ "France's Oldest Auschwitz Survivor Dies At 101". The Forward. 29 June 2019. Archived from the original on 11 October 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ "France's eldest Auschwitz survivor dies, aged 101". Reuters. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ Rubenstein, Sara. "Oldest Auschwitz survivor in France dies at 101". Israel National News. Retrieved 9 May 2025.