David Kohan
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David Kohan 1920-1995
engineer; journalist; freelancer for newspapers and radio stations in Berlin (Freier Mitarbeiter für Berliner Rundfunkanstalten); Jiddist (?), engineer
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Born January 9, 1920 in Warsaw.
Kohan's father was a physician, took actively part in Warsaw's Jewish cultural life.
David Kohan was in the Warsaw Ghetto, went into hiding and entered the resistance movement / was a partisan.
After the Second World War, Kohan came to Berlin, where he met his later wife Gisela. Together, they prepared radio shows on various topics ranging from Yiddish music to politics to Russian literature Atomenergie
1947 Berlin (DP) Schlachtensee
There he worked as an editor of a Jewish newspaper (Yiddish? which one?) and participated in publishing several volumes of Jewish literature (Yiddish? which ones?).
David Kohan taught Yiddish at the Jüdische Volkshochschule Berlin
David Kohan left his wife, Gisela, and two daughters.
(reference:
Schröter, Karl Heinz, ed.: Mein Psalm. Berlin: Lettner-Verlag, 1968, pp. 22)
