Lidie Cohen and her husband, former mayor Job Cohen, at the world premiere of the dance opera Pygmalion in 2010. ANP / Evert Elzinga
Lidie Cohen, wife of former mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, is deceased Tuesday at the age of 67. Reported that the Amsterdam station AT5. She suffered from MS. Lidie Cohen was involved in Amsterdam often went with her husband to meetings.
Cohen is deceased at the hospital. In recent years, her health deteriorated sharply. The disease was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1980 and in 1997 she ended up in a wheelchair.
Lidie Cohen was after studying Dutch teacher and counselor. She was also active in the Labour Party, including feminist movement the Red Women. She married in 1972 with Job. They had two children.
Cohen was, like her husband, always open about her illness. Thus Job Cohen said in a 2006 interview with Coen Verbraak, in answer to the question of how is your wife to see as crumbling:
“That’s terrible. In my office is a picture of when she was healthy. When I look at, I think, damn, what could have run her life differently if she had not had that fucking disease. They simply could so much, they could so terribly much. I’m sure they could have been as alderman in Maastricht. And that they had done very well. That’s all stolen from her. “
Read a profile of Lidie Cohen at Het Parool.
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