# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willy-cohn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:10:00.868Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willy-cohn"
name: "Willy Cohn"
slug: "willy-cohn"
description: "Dr. Willy Cohn was a German historian and teacher. During the Nazi era, he documented the Jewish life in Breslau in his diaries, until he and his family were deported to German-occupied Lithuania and killed."
tagline: "German medievalist, author and historian (1888-1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willy-Cohn-Plakette_am_Rynek_in_Breslau_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1888-12-12"
deathDate: "1941-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.289418666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Willy Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%87%D9%86"
    title: "ويلي كوهن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%87%D9%86"
    title: "ويلى كوهن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Cohn"
    title: "Willy Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Cohn"
    title: "Willy Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Cohn"
    title: "Willy Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%9B%D7%94%D7%9F"
    title: "וילי כהן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Cohn"
    title: "Willy Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Cohn"
    title: "Willy Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78377"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump