In France, at the age of 108, a hero died, saving hundreds of children during the Holocaust

HB reports.

Luangzha died on December 28 at the age of 108. "With him, an exceptional person who will be remembered will die."

George Luanshé was born on August 29, 1910 in Strasbourg, of a Jewish family of Polish citizens. At the age of 12, he entered the Jewish youth movement of Ha-Tiqua.

In 1940, during his service in the French Army, he was captured by German troops and sent to prison for prisoners in Germany. Because of the light hair and blue eyes, the Germans did not suspect that he was Jewish. He managed to escape and return to France. He joined the French Jewish Humanitarian Relief Organization (OSE), which helps children of Jewish refugees.

Between April 1943 and June 1944, OSE workers helped hundreds of Jewish children flee to Switzerland via a poorly guarded border. A Luangzha would be at the origin of the rescue of at least 350 children

The hero of the French movement, Resistance, used various tricks to get children to the Swiss border. He threw the ball into Swiss territory and ordered the children to run and take the ball. So they were on the other side of the border. He dressed the children with mourning clothes and took them to a cemetery near the border. On the steps of the cemetery, they crossed the wall and headed for the Swiss border a few steps away.

He was awarded with a medal of resistance, the military cross and the Order of the Legion of Honor.

• During the Second World War, on the order of the Nazis, 102,000 Jews were transported to concentration camps, they paid individual compensation to the relatives of the victims of the Holocaust.