|
|
|
|
|
|
 | |  |
Eva Cok-De Wilde
∗ 11-03-1916 Leeuwarden † 10-09-1942 Auschwitz (Oświęcim) (26)
- Valkenburg - ✡ - -
- 1. Stichting Struikelstenen
2. Walravenstraat 6 - NL-HaNA, CABR, 2.09.09, inv. 95412, dossier 5179 – Godert van Rennes, getuigenis Catharina Flachs uit Valkenburg.
- valkenburg.nl Bezwaard-verleden, 22-10-2025,
Copyright © 2025
ISBN/EAN 978-90-9040873-6. PDF - Jan Diederen 42 Joodse Valkenburgers opgepakt en vermoord
- Wikipedia: Stolperstein • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Português
- https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Eva-Cok-de-Wilde/01/9063
- https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/214983/eva-cok-de-wilde
Eva de Wilde came from Amsterdam and was married to the musician Machiel Cok, also from Amsterdam. She was a singer and performed as Amy Cok at the Pavillon dance hall in Valkenburg. During her stay in Valkenburg (summer 1942), she lived at Walravenstraat 6. [1]
On June 23, 1942, she and her friend Käthe (Carharina) Flachs took a bike ride to Vaals. Afterwards, Eva was arrested by Godert van Rennes, a Valkenburg police officer and fanatical member of the NSB. According to Käthe, she cycled to the police station with Eva, with Rennes close behind.
From Käthe’s testimony after the war: On the evening of her arrest, I went to Rennes to try to get her released because of her children. Rennes was unmoved and said that as a Jewish woman she had no permission to perform. He asked me if I knew where the children were. Knowing this, I pretended not to know. Fearing that if Rennes found out the address he would also arrest the children, I took them from Bunde, where they were in hiding, to Amsterdam the next day. [2]
Those children were Moos and Herman. She was probably arrested because she performed for Aryans despite the ban. After several months of imprisonment in the Maastricht Detention Center, she was transferred to the transit camp of Westerbork on September 6, 1942, where she was placed in the punishment barracks. The next day, she was transported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered immediately upon arrival.
Quoted from:
Bezwaard Verleden, Ontrechting en Rechtsherstel van Joodse inwoners in de voormalige gemeenten Valkenburg-Houthem en Berg en Terblijt (Burdened Past, Deprivation and Restoration of Rights of Jewish Residents in the Former Municipalities of Valkenburg-Houthem and Berg en Terblijt)
The research was conducted on behalf of the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul by an independent research team consisting of R.J.T. van Rijsselt, E.F. van Rijsselt, and M.C. Vlieks. [3]
Jan Diederen gives a different account in his book. Käthe Flachs’s witness statement mentioned above was not yet known at the time. That is why he had to settle for one of the many exaggerated stories that arose around Eva de Wilde’s arrest. Did he not find Käthe, or did she not want to talk about it anymore? This is often the case, for example, with traumatized people. In that version, the children were present at the arrest, but Käthe discreetly led them into a side street.
Source: 42 Joodse Valkenburgers opgepakt en vermoord (42 Jews from Valkenburg arrested and killed) [4]
On Sunday, March 13, 2016, the Stichting Struikelstenen Foundation in Valkenburg aan de Geul commemorated the 100th birthday of Eva Cok-de Wilde. Together with her granddaughter and great-granddaughter, a short memorial service was held at Walravenstraat 6, the building where Eva was arrested on June 23, 1942. [1.1]
Footnotes