Sigmund A. Cohn papers

Sigmund A. Cohn papers 

Sigmund A. Cohn (1898-1997) was born in Breslau, Germany, where he earned a law degree before working for the Department of Justice in Berlin and then being appointed a judge. He lost his position when Hitler came to power in 1933 and emigrated to Genoa, Italy, with his wife Suzanne Lewy Cohn and their daughters Eva and Marianne. In 1939 they immigrated to the United States and settled in Athens, Georgia, where Cohn had secured a position at the University of Georgia, first teaching German, Italian, and Spanish, and then as a full-time member of the law faculty. The Cohn family was joined by Suzanne Cohn's mother, Regina Sternberg Lewy. 

Sigmund A. Cohn papers