Georges Loinger

Georges Loinger is a resistant French.

Born in 1910 in Strasbourg in a Jewish family, it is high during the First World War by his/her aunt, the future mother of Marcel Mangel, who will make known himself later under the name of Marcel Marceau.
Although having finished studies of engineer, he becomes professor of physical education to the college Maïmonide of Boulogne-Billancourt. In the years which precede the Second world war, it deals with accommodating young Jewish refugees of Germany in a property of the baroness of Rothschild.

It is mobilized with the declaration of war, and is made captive during the Débâcle. Managing to escape from Bavaria, it joined his wife with Bourboule, where this one already dealt with young refugees.
Avec the support of Doctor Joseph Weill, one of his friends of Strasbourg and directing Work of help to the children, it organizes until the Release the rescue of several thousands of Jewish children whom it makes convoy via Annemasse until in Suisse. Some convoys will know a fine tragedy and will involve the loss of children and young heroins like Mila Racine, Marianne Cohn or Therese Tédesco.

After the war, it works to facilitate the passage of the survivors of the Nazism in Palestine agent and plays a great part in the business of the Exodus when this boat makes stopover in France. He will be then director of the French subsidiary company of the company of Israeli navigation Zim.

Georges Loinger is Commandeur of the Légion of honor on a purely military basis and received the Médaille of Resistance, the Military Cross with palms and the national Gold medal of the minister of education, youth and the Sports

References

Georges Loinger, the Alsatian one, frontier runner of children on the site of the newspaper Le Monde
Georges Loinger on the site of Memory and hopes of Resistance

See too

Homage to Georges Loinger

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