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Romi Cohn –a Czechoslovakian-born American rabbi, mohel, and real estate developer – died after contracting coronavirus on March 24, 2020.   Avraham Hakohen Cohn was born on March 10, 1929 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He was one of seven children.   World War II and the Holocaust See also: The Holocaust in Slovakia   During World War II, most Slovak Jews were deported to concentration camps. While Cohn's family managed to sneak him into Hungary, his mother, as well as two of his brothers and two of his sisters died in camps. In Hungary, Cohn studied in a Hasidic yeshiva until 1944 when the Nazis occupied the country. At that point, at the age of 15, he escaped back into Slovakia and joined a partisan brigade fighting the Nazis. As a ...