Americans and the Holocaust Keynote Presentation

Columbus and the Rise of Nazism

A LIBERATOR’S LEGACY: WWII VETERAN JUDGE AARON COHN AT EBENSEE as told by his daughter Gail Cohn.

Eleven years after his death in 2012, Judge Aaron Cohn is still revered in Columbus as a consummate civic leader and juvenile justice advocate. But during World War II, he was one of the soldiers who helped liberate the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria. Please join us as his daughter Gail Cohn shares the story of how the Judge’s reception as a Jewish Liberator by the prisoners resonates to this day.

For complete information about Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries, please visit the Exhibition Webpage.

Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries is made possible by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association.

This exhibition was made possible by the generous support of lead sponsor Jeannie & Jonathan Lavine. Additional major funding was provided by the Bildners—Joan & Allen z”l, Elisa Spungen & Rob, Nancy & Jim; and Jane and Daniel Och. The Museum’s exhibitions are also supported by the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund, established in 1990.

This event was made possible, in part, with support from the Muscogee County Library Foundation. Media support is provided by WRBL News 3.

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