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.
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)