Leonie Cohn


Leonie Clara Cohn was a BBC radio producer.

Early life and education

She was born in Königsberg to a Jewish family. In 1935, she moved to Italy to study at the University of Rome. After finishing school, and losing her parents in the Holocaust, she moved to the United Kingdom to live with art critic Herbert Read and his family.

Career

During World War II, she worked as a translator for BBC's German Service. She married Paul Findlay and had two children, Mark and Andrea.
She retired in 1977 after 36 years with BBC. She died in 2009 at age 92.

Selected publications