While Cohn's family managed to sneak him into Hungary, his mother, as well as two of his brothers and two of his sisters died in camps.
[3] He wrote his story of his war years in a book titled The Youngest Partisan, published by Mesorah Publications.
"[3] On January 29, 2020, at the invitation of his congressman Max Rose, Cohen delivered the opening prayer for the U.S. House of Representatives to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
[5][6][7] As a mohel, Cohn "set up an operating theater in his Staten Island home to circumcise adult Russian Jews who had not been able to undergo the ritual as infants because of Soviet strictures.
[3] Cohn died on March 24, 2020, at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, of respiratory distress caused by pneumonia and COVID-19.