Aaron Cohn Family Papers

Aaron Cohn was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1916 and educated in local public schools and graduated from Columbus High School in 1932. He graduated from the University of Georgia and the Lumpkin School of Law in 1938 and was admitted to the state bar the same year. Mr. Cohn volunteered in 1940 for military service, entering as Lieutenant. He was Combat Operations Officer of the 3rd U.S. Cavalry in General Patton’s Army in four major campaigns in Northern Europe, Central Europe, Ardennes and Rhineland and was decorated for the same. He was cited in 1978 by the City of Bettenbourg, Luxemburg for his service in the liberation of Luxemburg while with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Also, in 1982 he was honored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Commission as an official Liberator of the Concentration Camp at Ebensee, Austria in 1945. He left active duty in 1946 and resumed his law practice. He would later reire from the U.S. Army Reserve with the rank of Colonel after 27 years of active and inactive duty. Mr. Cohn was married on June 12, 1941 to Janet Ann Lilienthal and they had 3 children, Gail Cohn Gross, Leslie L. Cohn and Jane Kulbersh. Judge Cohn died on July 4, 2012 at the age of 96. He made such a large impact on the City of Columbus that the Muscogee County School District named a new middle school, located in the suburban town of Midland, in his memory when it opened the year after his death.