Uriel Cohn was born on July 13, 1940, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Adolph, a graphologist, and Elfriede Strauss Cohn, a teacher. He had an older brother, Michael, born in Amsterdam in 1936. His parents had emigrated from Germany in1935 because of the increasingly harsh anti-Semitic policies and persecution of Jews by the Nazi government. They were refused permission to immigrate to Palestine, so they ...