Difference between revisions of "David Kohan"
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Kohan's father was a physician, took actively part in Warsaw's Jewish cultural life. | 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 Second World War, Kohan came to Berlin <br> | + | After the Second World War, Kohan came to Berlin. <br> |
| − | 1947 Berlin (DP)<br> | + | 1947 Berlin (DP) Schlachtensee <br> |
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?).<br> | 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?).<br> | ||
| − | taught Yiddish at the Jüdische Volkshochschule Berlin | + | David Kohan taught Yiddish at the Jüdische Volkshochschule Berlin |
Revision as of 15:26, 23 June 2010
David Kohan 1920-1995
engineer; journalist; freelancer for newspapers and radio stations in Berlin (Freier Mitarbeiter für Berliner Rundfunkanstalten); Jiddist (?), engineer
!!! please add biographical information !!!
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.
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
(reference, among others:
Schröter, Karl Heinz, ed.: Mein Psalm. Berlin: Lettner-Verlag, 1968, pp. 22)
