Alice Cohn

Alice Cohn (1914–2000) was a German-Jewish graphic artist who forged Dutch identity cards (persoonsbewijs) for Jews and the Dutch resistance during World War II.[1] In her work for the Dutch resistance after she fled to Netherlands in 1936, she proved that Jacob Lentz's supposedly perfect identity card could be forged. Working in secret, she used blank documents, exchanged photographs, and altered details, saving the lives of hundreds of people.[2]

Alice Cohn is the first Liechtenstein citizen to receive the award. Cohn receives the award for rescuing a 3-year-old girl from the nursery at Plantage Middenlaan Street, and most importantly for her long-standing resistance work at the ‘Forgery Agency’ in Utrecht. She lived during the war years in Utrecht, mostly hidden in an attic room from where she did her resistance work. Because she permanently left the Netherlands after 1945, her history is completely unknown to date.[3]

Further reading

References
  1. "Identity Cards and Forgeries". Jewish Cultural Quarter. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  2. "Alice (Juultje) Cohn". Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  3. "Alice Cohn posthumously awarded with significant international distinction - Jewish Cultural Quarter". jck.nl. Retrieved 18 January 2019.


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