Willy Cohn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willy Cohn

German medievalist, author and historian

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1888

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 29-Nov-1941

Profession: writer, historian, author, medievalist, high school teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Dr.
Willy Cohn (12 December 1888 in Breslau – 29 November 1941 in Kaunas, Lithuania) was a German historian and teacher.
During the Nazi era, he documented the Jewish life in Breslau in his diaries, until he and his family were deported to German-occupied Lithuania and killed. Cohn's diaries, translated into English and condensed, were published in 2012 as No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941 by Stanford University Press.
Along with Victor Klemperer, Cohn was one of the most important chroniclers of the crimes of the Nazi regime against the Jewish people.