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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.

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