Romi Cohn: Wanted by the Gestapo
Lying on the wet, cold ground of winter, the teenage boy looks for any movement. Suddenly, someone moves in the distance and a firing frenzy occurs. Silence. The life of a partisan during WWII was not easy and followed the concept of survival of the fittest. Romi Cohn, a teenage Jewish partisan, took on the responsibility of taking care of the Jewish families in his home town, thus leading him to the path of resistance. Romi Cohn was a thirteen year old boy who was living in Czechoslovakia, when the Nazis took over the country. He was taken to Hungary by a guide, which separated him from his family. The family could not go together because the Nazis had already came into the country. They had to go separate …show more content…
The rest of the war, Romi spent with the partisans. The partisans stayed in caves, and in the forest. Food was scarce. Farmers gave food to them, or the partisans took it by force. During the winter was especially hard. Partisans had to constantly move so they didn’t freeze to death. They would go on raids to sabotage German positions, cut communication lines, and blow up trains carrying supplies.
When the person in charge of the radio for the partisan group announced that the war was over, it was one of his happiest days in Romi’s life. When the war started, there were 250 people in the partisan group. At the end, there were only 32. Only 2 out of the 30 horses had survived. One of the horses was Romi’s, a wild horse that the partisan group had given him as a joke, but was tamed by him. He was reunited with his father and two sisters. Romi is now a rabbi living in New …show more content…
First, Romi showed moral courage thought his life during WWII. Moral courage is the ability to stand up for and defend one’s beliefs against the oppressor. He risked his life multiple times to save others that he did not have a personal connection to. The families that he chose to help were close to being captured, but Romi gave them money to save them. His acts of bravery were awarded with medals that he earned later on. Instead of hiding, he joined the partisans to fight back for what he knew was right and what he believed in. Later in life Romi told us, “More than simply remember the Holocaust, we must remember the lessons of the Holocaust.” (Zullo 76) This shows us that he is a very smart man that cares for the needs of
Lying on the wet, cold ground of winter, the teenage boy looks for any movement. Suddenly, someone moves in the distance and a firing frenzy occurs. Silence. The life of a partisan during WWII was not easy and followed the concept of survival of the fittest. Romi Cohn, a teenage Jewish partisan, took on the responsibility of taking care of the Jewish families in his home town, thus leading him to the path of resistance. Romi Cohn was a thirteen year old boy who was living in Czechoslovakia, when the Nazis took over the country. He was taken to Hungary by a guide, which separated him from his family. The family could not go together because the Nazis had already came into the country. They had to go separate …show more content…
The rest of the war, Romi spent with the partisans. The partisans stayed in caves, and in the forest. Food was scarce. Farmers gave food to them, or the partisans took it by force. During the winter was especially hard. Partisans had to constantly move so they didn’t freeze to death. They would go on raids to sabotage German positions, cut communication lines, and blow up trains carrying supplies.
When the person in charge of the radio for the partisan group announced that the war was over, it was one of his happiest days in Romi’s life. When the war started, there were 250 people in the partisan group. At the end, there were only 32. Only 2 out of the 30 horses had survived. One of the horses was Romi’s, a wild horse that the partisan group had given him as a joke, but was tamed by him. He was reunited with his father and two sisters. Romi is now a rabbi living in New …show more content…
First, Romi showed moral courage thought his life during WWII. Moral courage is the ability to stand up for and defend one’s beliefs against the oppressor. He risked his life multiple times to save others that he did not have a personal connection to. The families that he chose to help were close to being captured, but Romi gave them money to save them. His acts of bravery were awarded with medals that he earned later on. Instead of hiding, he joined the partisans to fight back for what he knew was right and what he believed in. Later in life Romi told us, “More than simply remember the Holocaust, we must remember the lessons of the Holocaust.” (Zullo 76) This shows us that he is a very smart man that cares for the needs of