May 1, 2016
World War II veteran and retired Army Col. Frank Cohn, 90, participated in the Holocaust Remembrance service Sunday in the JCC gym, where he helped read the program’s history about the first International Military Tribunal: “The erasing of one people by another may sadly date to the beginnings of mankind,” he read. “But creating the word ‘genocide’ – the naming of these atrocities – took the unique heinousness of the Holocaust. And it took the trials at Nuremberg.” During the war, Cohn was a private first class who fought in the Battle of the Bulge – a surprise attack of German forces Dec. 16, 1944 against the Allies along Europe’s Western Front in the dense forests of Belgium, France and Luxembourg.
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