2024-05-05 19:39:22
Among the millions of Jews killed during the Holocaust, there were not only residents of European countries. So, in the summer of 1939, Canadian citizen Harry Cohen had the misfortune of coming to Poland.
His story was told on the Men in Black Telegram channel and on the Turnipseed Travel resource.
Cohen left Europe with his wife and four children back in 1919. He led a vibrant and fairly ordinary life as a Jewish Canadian immigrant in 1930s Montreal, doing his best to survive and teaching his children the value of hard work. Harry was a bird reseller and could have gone into farming, real estate or perhaps industry in the future, but instead Harry Cohen suffered the tragic fate of being the only Canadian killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The desire to visit my sister and check out the family textile business in Poland became a fatal mistake. The Canadian passport did not help Harry resist the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The family never saw Cohen again after that.
In 1945, Harry’s son, living in Montreal, received a package from Europe in his name. An unknown woman from Poland sent Cohen’s family a tallit (prayer shawl), a prayer book and several traveler’s checks. She said that she tried to hide Harry, but the Gestapo found him. He probably died at Auschwitz, the only Canadian citizen killed there.
Thanks to this Polish woman, the number of “nameless” Holocaust victims remains smaller. It was a comfort to the family and another artifact saved from the clutches of the beasts that tried to destroy all memories of our people.
Previously, Cursor reported how many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors live in Israel.
In addition, we recently talked about how the period of memorial days will take place in Israel.