Izrael Kohn
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|denomination= Orthodox Judaism
|synagogue = Koprivnica Synagogue
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|began = 1924
|ended = 1941
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|birth_date = 1885
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|birth_place = Poland (?){{cite book |editor1-last=Ernečić |editor1-first=Dražen |title=Židovi u Koprivnici |date=2005 |publisher=Muzej Grada Koprivnice |isbn=9789536243723 |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=86ttAAAAMAAJ}}
|death_place = Jasenovac, Independent State of Croatia
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Izrael Kohn (1885–1941) was the last rabbi of the Koprivnica Synagogue.
Biography
Kohn was the last rabbi of Koprivnica's Jewish community. He became rabbi in Koprivnica in 1924.{{cite web |last1=ŠVARC |first1=Krešimir |title=PRILOZI ZA POVIJEST KOPRIVNIČKIH ŽIDOVA |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/337281 |page=5 |language=hr}} He came to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from Poland. He was by then already a trained rabbi with a PhD. He married Lina Breier, by whom he had three daughters: Frida, Gena, plus a daughter with an unknown name, and a son, Marko.{{cite journal |last1=Fischer |first1=Leopold |title=Sličica iz seoskog života poljskih Židova |url=https://www.jevrejskadigitalnabiblioteka.rs/handle/123456789/1594 |journal=Jevrejski Almanah Za Godinu 5687 (1926/27)|year=1926 |volume=2 |pages=131–134 }} He is said to have lived secluded and modestly with his family in Koprivnica.
In the night between 23 July and 24 July 1941, he, along with his whole family and other Jews from Koprivnica, was taken by the Ustashe to the Gospić concentration camp, and eventually died in Jasenovac.{{cite journal |title=Sličica iz seoskog života poljskih Židova |journal=Jevrejski Almanah Za Godinu 5687 (1926/27) |year=1926 |volume=2 |pages=131–134 |url=https://www.jevrejskadigitalnabiblioteka.rs/handle/123456789/1594 |publisher=Vršac : Savez rabina Kraljevine S. H. S. |last1=Kohn |first1=Izrael }} His son Marko perished in Jasenovac as well.
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Category:People from Koprivnica
Category:20th-century Croatian rabbis
Category:Croatian civilians killed in World War II
Category:Croatian Jews who died in the Holocaust
Category:People of Polish-Jewish descent
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