August 29, 1910
Georges Loinger Is Born
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On this day, August 29, 1910, Georges Loinger was born in Strasbourg. He later helped about 350 Jewish children escape from occupied France into Switzerland.
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On this day, Georges Loinger was born in Strasbourg, then in the German Empire. He joined the Hatikvah Zionist youth movement as a teenager. Captured as a French soldier in 1940, he escaped a German prisoner-of-war camp and joined the French Resistance.
Working with the Œuvre de secours aux enfants, he helped about 350 Jewish children cross into Switzerland in 1943–1944. He died in Paris on 28 December 2018, at 108.
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- Georges Loinger, Wartime Rescuer of Jewish Children, Dies at 108 · Richard Sandomir · The New York Times (2019-01-04) View source
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