Pavel Kohn (M / Czechia, 1929-2017), Holocaust survivor

Pavel Kohn (M / Czechia, 1929-2017), Holocaust survivor.

• KEYWORDS : <Czechia> <Theresienstadt> <Czech Family Camp Auschwitz> <Auschwitz> <Blechhammer> <Death March> <Buchenwald (Block 66)> <Liberation of Buchenwald> -- <Czechia> <Germany> <United States>

Biography

Pavel Kohn was born October 14, 1929 in Prague. As a Jewish child, in 1941 he was forbidden to attend school and he and his brother were being educated in a Jewish home school for several months. In 1942 the Kohn family were transported to Terezín, where his father died. In 1943 the rest of his family were transported to the Czech Family Camp Auschwitz. The camp was eliminated several months later. Pavel Kohn and his brother passed the selection process in front of doctor Mengele, but they have never seen their mother anymore. Pavel was later taken to the labour camp Blechhammer and from there he went with a death march to Buchenwald. He survived in Buchenwald until the camp was liberated by the US Army. After his return to Prague he had no place to stay and he thus went to the sanatorium in the Štiřín chateau which was established by Přemysl Pitter as part of the project Zámky (Chateaux). Pavel Kohn emigrated with his wife Ruth to Germany in 1967. From 1968 until the 1990s he was working for Radio Free Europe. Pavel Kohn passed away in 2017.