Freddie Cohen
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Freddie Cohen is the Minister for Planning and Environment in Jersey.
He entered the States of Jersey at the 2005 elections, receiving 13,704 votes in the Senatorials and occupying third place in the poll.
[edit] Biography
Frederick Ellyer Cohen was born in 1960, Manchester, he was educated in Jersey at Moorestown, St Michael’s School, Victoria College and then studied at London South Bank University.
Following a career in construction, he took up positions on the executive of La Société Jersiaise and as vice-president of the Jersey Heritage Trust. A former president of the Jersey Jewish Congregation, he has been prominent in community relations as trustee of the Jersey Community Relations Trust, member of the Jersey Holocaust Memorial Day Committee, and author of historical publications on the Occupation of the Channel Islands. He has served as Centenier in St John.
He is also the author of two books on the Occupation and the history of Channel Island Silver, managed the new official history of the Occupation by Paul Sanders, organised the La Hougue Bie Slaveworker Memorial, commissioned, fundraised and managed ‘The Ultimate Sacrifice’ – the chronicle of Islanders who perished in concentration camps.
