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Isaiah Cohen

ישעיהוכהן

Named in the Israel contributor list.

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What the book records

Isaiah Cohen — ישעיהו כהן — appears only as a name in Sefer Lukow’s list of contributors from Israel. The supplied evidence gives no biography, dates, occupation, family information, or indication of whether he survived the Holocaust. Thus, the book preserves his name as part of the postwar Łuków survivor and remembrance network, but does not establish more about his life.

The same passage names Shimon Saraka, while the United States contributors include Mattel Feldman, Jacob Braun, Jack Braun, Leyb Batsan, Tzvi Flug, and Hersh Rozenstein. These names show a commemorative connection, not necessarily family or personal association. The supplied record identifies K. Heler as editor, although the JewishGen edition identifies the editor as B. Heller. JewishGen’s bibliographic page records the volume as published in Tel Aviv in 1968. (jewishgen.org)

Historical setting

Isaiah’s appearance belongs to the memorial effort surrounding a destroyed community. Łuków had a substantial Jewish population, with synagogues, schools, religious institutions, political organizations, and a strong economic and cultural life before the war. The Jewish community’s history describes 6,145 Jews in Łuków in 1921, nearly half the town’s population. (en.wikipedia.org) During the German occupation, Jews from Łuków and surrounding towns were concentrated in the ghetto; Yad Vashem’s Łuków ghetto account records deportations, forced labor, executions, and the arrival of Jews from other communities. (wwv.yadvashem.org)

The community was destroyed through deportations and mass murder in 1942–1943, principally to Treblinka. The USHMM account of Treblinka identifies it as an Operation Reinhard killing center, where the Germans murdered an estimated 925,000 Jews. (encyclopedia.ushmm.org) Against this background, Isaiah Cohen’s brief listing is significant precisely because it records participation in rebuilding communal memory after Łuków’s destruction, even though the available book evidence does not allow a fuller identification.

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