Cohen and van Bever families collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Two stamp albums, owned by the donors' maternal grandfather, Emanuel van Bever, and retrieved by the donors' mother after the family returned to their apartment in Amsterdam following the end of World War II, which they had survived by living in hiding. These albums were among the very few belongings still left in their apartment. Collection also includes two photographs of Emile Cohen as a boy, including one of him taken while in hiding during the war.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Emile Cohen and Sanneke Cohen Murphy.