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Name: POLLECOFF, Eve Agnes, Mrs
Nee: dau of Ernst and Ruth Loewenstein, granddaughter of Otto Markus
Birth Date: 25.5.1930 Mombasa
First Date: 1930
Last Date: 1955
Profession: Schoolteacher; worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit & The Institute of Economic Affairs; appointed a JP in 1977
Area: Mombasa and Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi Oct 1955 Bernard Benjamin Pollecoff (12 Mar 1931 Pwllheli-11 Jan 1984 London)
Children: Wendy; Martha
Author: Pioneer Merchant Trader, the Life and Times of Otto Markus, 2012
Book Reference: EAWL, Glimpses
School: St. Andrew's School, Turi; Kenya High School; Cheltenham Ladies' College, St Andrews Univ. Oxford Univ
General Information:
Glimpses - The first wedding held in the new synagogue was Eve Lowenstein's, the granddaughter of Mombasa's first Jewish resident, Otto Markus. Her Welsh groom, Bernard Pollecoff, whom she had met at Oxford, came all the way out from the UK to be married at home in October 1955.