Arthur Juda Cohen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arthur Juda Cohen

Dutch resistance member

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1910

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 22-Dec-2000

Profession: resistance fighter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Arthur Juda (Adje Cohen, Uri Yehuda Cohen, Aart Gerardus Lekskes) Cohen (19 January 1910 – 22 December 2000) was a leading member of the Dutch Underground resistance movement, and after World War II he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Jewish community in the Netherlands; as late as the mid-1970s, when already in his 60s, he established a school for strictly orthodox boys and girls in Amsterdam, known as the "Cheider".
Arthur Juda Cohen was also responsible for the rescue of Iranian-Jewish Refugees to the Netherlands.
Between 1987 and 1997 over 3000 Iranian Jews were brought through Pakistan to safer places.