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Birthday: 1901-02-10
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Families: Cohen

Family

Spouse: Esther Sasson Cohen
Children: David Cohen, Rosette (Rosy) Cohen Hanan, Mireille Cohen, Itshak (Zako) Cohen, Vicky Cohen Itshaki

Biography

Maurice Cohen, is the eldest son of David and Warda Cohen. His brothers are :Elie, Joseph, Jack,… his sisters are :Fortuna, Alice. On 22.2.1931, married to Esther Sasson … They lived in Heliopolis, Cairo, and had a store of house ware goods. In 1950 the family emigrated to Israel with their 5 children, Maurice (Moshe) Cohen loved Israel, and agreed to live in an agicultural environment in the middle of nature. At their arrival in Israel, they lived in a new settlement called “Beit Zait”, It is a splendid place , in the middle of the beautiful mountains surrounding Jerusalem. He worked as a guardian in the Keren Kayemet Le Israel, In the sixties, the family moved to the city of Holon, where he died on the 21.2.1985, aged 84 years old.

Photos


Photo souvenir 1931.Maurice Cohen,Esther Sasson and her brother Albert Sasson.


Maurice (Moshe) Cohen loved Israel, and almost always lived in nature.When the family emigrated in Israel in 1949, they lived in a new settlement called “Beit Zait”, It is a splendid place , in the middle of the beautiful mountains surrounding Jerusalem. He worked as a guardian in the Keren Kayemet Le Israel,


Moshe and Esther Cohen, in Moshav Beit Zait near Jerusalem, - about 1958.


Photo souvenir near the house of Rosy and Vicky Hanan, in moshav beit-Zait,..with tante Victoria and Elie Patan. December 1957.


Official wedding photography 22 February 1931.


August 1946,…2 weeks of holiday , in the city of Port-Said on the mediterranean sea, at the entrance of the Suez canalSouvenir on the beach, with the Patan family, and Albert Sasson and his wife Emilie.


Some days of rest,.. relax,… on the beach of Port-Said. August 1946.


Maurice and Esther Cohen,.. grandparents…


Esther and Maurice Cohen,…Sometime before their marriage.


Warda Cohen, mother of Maurice (Moshe) Cohen.She lived with the family in Moshav Beit Zait, near Jerusalem


Maurice Cohen and his wife Esther Cohen,…With his brother Jack and mother Warda.


On the ship, with my family, my sister Fortuna and her daughter Jouja,…En route for Israel … November 1949.