About Henriette Cohen
Lived 1917 – 2019 (aged 101). Henriette Cohen was a French resistance fighter.
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. 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 or Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Cohen died on 25 June 2019 in Marseille. Obituaries refer to her as France’s oldest Auschwitz survivor.
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Holocaust survivor
When was Henriette Cohen born?
Henriette Cohen was born on 17 August 1917 in Marseille.
When did Henriette Cohen die?
Henriette Cohen died on 25 June 2019 in 8th arrondissement of Marseille.
What was Henriette Cohen's occupation?
Henriette Cohen was a resistance fighter.
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Henriette Cohen was French.
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