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Buidhe, I'm of course assuming you added the "dubious" tag for good reason but can you elaborate a bit more so we can see if there's a way for that matter to be addressed... or perhaps there isn't? Loksmythe (talk) 02:24, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Loksmythe, Rescuing 56 families (at an absolute minimum, that refers to 100+ people) as a fifteen year old is a extroardinary claim and we need a stronger source to include it in the article. I could believe that Cohn was part of a group that did it, but the NYT article makes him sound like the main actor, which is extremely unlikely. Unfortunately, many such claims related to rescuing Jews during the Holocaust are exaggerated or made up. Needless to say, Cohn and/or his group is never mentioned in Nina Paulovicova's excellent thesis on the subject. (Paulovičová, Nina (2012). Himka, John-Paul (ed.). Rescue of Jews in the Slovak State (1939–1945) (PhD thesis). Edmonton: University of Alberta. doi:10.7939/R33H33.) buidhe14:46, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The NYT obit is pretty clear that he used his connections to get a crucial stamp. Did he single-handedly spirit 56 families out of danger? No, probably not. But that stamp could well have been the key to getting travel documents, which were issued to the head of a household. It would be nice to get more and better sourcing but this was a fairly prominent person who would have had ample opportunity to be debunked. Wnissen (talk) 17:25, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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