Irma Cohn was born on July 22, 1914, in Greifenhagen (today Gryfino, Poland). She grew up with her older brother Max in their parent’s household. Irma’s mother was Emma Cohn, née Itzig. The family lived in 1928 in the building 28, ten years later in Fischerstraße 10.

It is not known when Irma came to “Heim Isenburg" and whether she worked there or was supervised. In May 1937, Irma Cohn was deregistered to Idstein in the curative institution Kalmenhof.

She was admitted to the women's concentration camp Lichtenburg (Saxony) under the Nazi persecution to an unspecified date. When this camp was dissolved, she was moved along with many other female prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp in May 1939. There Irma Cohn was detained for almost three years. In the spring of 1942, 1600 women in the Ravensbrück concentration camp were selected and killed by gas in the Bernburg Euthanasia Centre. Among them was Irma Cohn. She died on February 13, 1942.

Irma's father died in Stralsund in 1926. Her mother, Emma Cohn, was expelled after the November Pogroms in 1938 from her apartment in Greifenhagen and had to live henceforth in a scrapped railway wagon at the port of Greifenhagen. In 1939, she moved to a cousin in Szczecin. From there, Emma Cohn was deported in the night from the 12th to 13th February 1940 in the ghetto of Piaski (Lublin, Poland). She died there on July 30, 1940.

Irma's brother, Max Cohn, was imprisoned in the prison of Brandenburg on the Havel since May 1939. On July 4, 1940, he was shot in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

The entry could be completed with help through Irma Cohn's nephew, Günter Unger.

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