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Rep. Max Rose remarks on Rabbi Romi Cohn, Congregation Ohr Yechezkel, Brooklyn, NY, January 29, 2020
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Remarks by sponsor Rep. Max Rose ...
WELCOMING RABBI AVRAHAM HAKOHEN ``ROMI'' COHN
Mr. ROSE of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Rabbi Romi Cohn, a leader on Staten Island and a dear, dear friend. Rabbi Cohn has dedicated his life to Jewish culture and heritage and built a renowned career as a mohel in New York City for over 25 years.
I am especially honored to welcome Rabbi Cohn this week as we remember the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Rabbi Cohn's career is merely a continuation of a lifetime of fighting for the Jewish faith. His early life was uprooted by the rise of the Nazi Party, their invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the outbreak of World War II. Under Nazi rule, he saw the Hitler Youth attack his father in the street. When war broke out, he joined the partisans fighting Nazi tyranny. At 15 years old, Romi was the youngest member of the Czechoslovakian partisan forces. Among other feats, he helped save 56 Jewish families
escape the horrors of the Holocaust. He fought with the partisans until the end of the war and then went in search of his own family. Of his parents and six siblings, only his
father and two sisters had survived. Rabbi Cohn saw how a democracy can be corrupted into a fascist dictatorship and what happens when anti-Semitism is allowed to fester. Sadly, across this country, we see an alarming rise in anti-Semitism and hatred. Rabbi Cohn's legacy reminds us never to accept bigotry, not when we see it in the street, not when we saw it in the Halls of Congress, not when we see it anywhere. Our freedoms are not free. We must fight for them or risk losing them. Rabbi Cohn is a model and example for all of us to follow, and I thank him for his extraordinary life of service.
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