Rabbi Romi Cohn was hailed as 'a role model to the Jewish community' after being struck down by COVID-19 on Tuesday.
An elderly Rabbi who was said to have helped rescue 56 Jewish families during the holocaust has died from the COVID-19 coronavirus., not long after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Only two months earlier, he had delivered the opening prayer for the U.S. House of Representatives, in commemoration of the 75-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
"As a young boy of 10 years I was condemned to be dead, to be murdered along with my entire family... by one evil man, may his name be erased forever," Cohn told lawmakers during the January prayer. "Rabbi Cohn was a role model to the Jewish community," Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding toldover the phone."This tragic death reminds us that faith in God does not mean that sorrow will never enter our homes, or that illness will never strike our loved ones."
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