Elie Aron Cohen, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetElie Aron Cohen
Dutch scientist
Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1909
Date of Death: 22-Oct-1993
Profession: physician
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Elie Aron Cohen
- Elie Aron Cohen was a Dutch doctor (July 16, 1909 in Groningen – October 22, 1993 in Arnhem) who, being Jewish, was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- He arrived there on September 16, 1943.
- His first wife, his first son as well as his parents-in-law were killed upon arrival, but he managed to survive through a combination of chance and skill.
- His status and abilities as a doctor were instrumental for his survival.
- On May 6, 1945, he was liberated by the U.S.
- military in Melk (Austria), where he had been transported by way of Mauthausen-Gusen.
- After World War II, Elie Cohen remarried a Jewish woman.
- They have two children, a daughter and a son.
- Elie Cohen is the author of a number of books about the Holocaust.
- The first of these was the Ph.D.
- thesis on which he graduated on March 11, 1952, at Utrecht State University (supervisor: H.C.
- Rümke, professor of psychiatry).
- The book (in Dutch) was entitled "The German Concentration Camp — a medical and psychological study", and it was one of the first scientific descriptions of what had happened in killing centres such as Auschwitz.
- It also provided an analysis of the psychology of the SS-men who manned these camps and of their victims: the prisoners.
- At that time there was little interest in the Netherlands in recounting these events, but surprisingly the thesis was much in demand.
- It was later translated into English, Swedish and Japanese. Elie Cohen went on to write a number of books and publications about extermination camps such as Auschwitz and Sobibor and their survivors.
- He was instrumental in obtaining official recognition in the Netherlands of the "post-concentration camp syndrome" from which many survivors came to suffer in their later years.
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