Days of Remembrance [Image 3 of 3]

FORT BENNING, GA, UNITED STATES

04.24.2019

Photo by Markeith Horace 

Fort Moore Public Affairs Office

FORT BENNING, Ga. – The Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning commemorates the Holocaust with a Days of Remembrance observance April 24 that told the story of a Jewish-American U.S. Army officer who was present when his unit liberated a German concentration camp in Austria at the end of World War II. The officer, Maj. Aaron Cohn, was operations officer with the 3rd Cavalry Group, when on May 6, 1945, elements of the 3rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Ebensee, a satellite of the Mauthausen camp. The horrors of what he saw at Ebensee haunted Cohn for the rest of his life, said his daughter, Gail Cohn, who recounted her late father’s story before an audience of Soldiers inside Fort Benning’s McGinnis-Wickam Hall. After the war, Cohn returned to his native Columbus, Georgia and resumed his law practice, and served 46 years on the bench, and retired in 2011 as the nation’s longest-serving juvenile court judge. He also continued his military service with the U.S. Army Reserve, retiring as a colonel. He died in 2012 at age 96.The observance was hosted by the MCoE’s 316th Cavalry Brigade. (U.S. Army photo by Markeith Horace, Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning Public Affairs)

• Date Taken: 04.24.2019
• Date Posted: 04.25.2019 17:02
• Photo ID: 5298041
• VIRIN: 190424-O-IE830-948
• Resolution: 5760x3840
• Size: 6.48 MB
• Location: FORT BENNING, GA, US