What is Georges Loinger?
[[File:Georges Loinger par Claude Truong-Ngoc octobre 2014.jpg|thumb|Loinger in October 2014]] '''Georges Loinger''' (29 August 1910 &ndash; 28 December 2018) was a [[French Resistance|French resistance fighter]] during [[World War II]]. He began fighting against [[Nazi Germany]] in 1939 but was captured in 1940. He escaped soon after, and rescued hundreds of [[Jewish]] children over then next few years. Until September 1943, that part of frontier was guarded by Italian army: Loinger remembers one day Italian high officer secretly told him he approved what Loinger did, that's his rescue activity. After September, there was German invasion and the activity became harder.<ref>[http://www.informazionecorretta.com/main.php?mediaId=2&sez=120&id=73208 ''Si è spento a 108 anni l'ultimo superstite della nave Exodus'' (Italian language)]</ref> He was awarded the medal of honorary [[citizen]] of the city of [[Strasbourg]] in 2014. In July 2016, he was made an officer in the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/zweiter-weltkrieg-todesmutig-die-geschichte-des-monsieur-loinger-1.3069711|title=Todesmutig - die Geschichte des Monsieur Loinger|work=[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]|date=11 July 2016|access-date=16 December 2017|language=de}}</ref> Loinger was born in [[Strasbourg]]. He was Jewish. He [[Centenarian|turned 100]] in August 2010. Loinger died in [[Paris]] on 28 December 2018 at the age of 108.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dna.fr/edition-de-strasbourg/2018/12/28/le-grand-resistant-georges-loinger-s-est-eteint-a-l-age-de-108-ans | title=Nécrologie. Le grand résistant Georges Loinger, né à Strasbourg, s'est éteint à l'âge de 108 ans }}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Loinger, Georges}} [[Category:1910 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:French centenarians]] [[Category:French Jews]] [[Category:French military people]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]] [[Category:Military personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Order of Merit of