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Herman Cohn
Herman Cohn was born in Essen Germany in 1921; he was the oldest brother of two and did not have an easy childhood. Herman's dad remarried a woman who lost her biological children and caused her to envy the fact that her step-children survived, so Herman and his younger brother was not loved and received extra punishment from there step-mother. Herman went to a Jewish school until high school where he went to a German High school. Herman's dad began sending money to The U.S. before Germany started laws to take away all Jewish privileges, he did not send much but enough to get started in the U.S. His Family moved to Chicago Illinois in the early 1941 and he immediately joined the U.S. army in hopes to fight the Germans in the war against Jews. Herman started in the army as a tailor and met his wife on the fourth of July. When the Germans invaded Africa every able man was turned into infantry including Herman.
Herman traveled with the U.S. Army and saw many terrors of the war, he says “there were thousands of suits hanging, and there were thousands of gassed, shot and tortured dead bodies, a sight I should not ever forget." Herman killed a lot of the guards that were guarding the Jews, at least the ones that did not run away. He would travel with the army and kill any Nazi that he would come across. The day the war ended Herman was in Ettal Switzerland. Herman was granted a three day leave and went back to Germany and found the guy who ripped off his dad for thousands of dollars and had the British army arrest him and beat him out of a confession. Herman witnessed the war from two different angles and actually fought the Nazis with the U.S. army. After being discharged from the army Herman became a successful family man and opened up 2 businesses in America and now his children run and opened a Hallmark store. Herman ended with, " how can they say the stuff that happened, didn’t happen?" “I was beaten and witnessed many horrors of this evil time; I will always be haunted by the images."
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