Two months ago, Rabbi Romi Cohn grew deeply emotional as he stood before the United States Congress, delivering the opening prayer on the day that marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“As a young boy of 10 years, I was condemned to be dead, to be murdered,” Cohn told the lawmakers.
Instead, Cohn survived the war. He joined the partisan forces that fought the Nazis in what was then Czechoslovakia and helped to rescue 56 Jewish families. He moved to Brooklyn, where he became a respected rabbi and a mohel who performed thousands of circumcisions, welcoming new generations of Jewish baby boys.
This week, Cohn died at 91 of the coronavirus.
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