Education
The first of these was the Doctor of Philosophy thesis on which he graduated on March 11, 1952, at Utrecht State University (supervisor: The Human Context Rümke, professor of psychiatry).
The first of these was the Doctor of Philosophy thesis on which he graduated on March 11, 1952, at Utrecht State University (supervisor: The Human Context Rümke, professor of psychiatry).
He arrived there on September 16, 1943. His status and abilities as a doctor were instrumental for his survival. On May 6, 1945, he was liberated by the United States. military in Melk, where he had been transported by way of Mauthausen-Gusen.
After World World War II, Elie Cohen remarried a Jewish woman.
Elie Cohen is the author of a number of books about the Holocaust. The book (in Dutch) was entitled "The German Concentration Camp — a medical-psychological study", and it was one of the first scientific descriptions of what had happened in killing centres such as Auschwitz.
lieutenant also provided an analysis of the psychology of the Steamship-men who manned these camps. At that time there was little interest in the Netherlands in recounting these events, but surprisingly the thesis was much in demand.
lieutenant 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 recognition in the Netherlands of the "post-concentration camp syndrome" from which many survivors came to suffer in their later years.