Georges-André KOHN was 12 years old and a pupil at the Janson-de-Sailly lycée in Paris when he was deported on the last convoy from Drancy, convoy 79 of August 17, 1944. Aloïs Brunner, then the commanding officer at Drancy, accompanied that convoy when he had to abandon the camp. With him he took hostages, including the Kohn family whom he particularly hated. Georges-André's older brother and sister were able to escape from the convoy, but the rest of the family were deported. Only the father returned, having lost his mother, his wife, and his youngest son. Selected at Auschwitz as a guinea pig along with Jewish children from other countries, including Jacqueline Morgenstern from France, Georges-André was sent to the Neuengamme camp. He was the victim of pseudo-medical experiments. The day before the liberation of the camp, he and his comrades in suffering were hanged in the basement of a Hamburg school, the Bullenhuser Damm. A book with that title tells the story of those Jewish children's martyrdom, and today there is a street in Hamburg called Georges-André KohnStrasse.∼Georges-Andre Kohn was a victim of the Holocaust.
Georges-Andre Kohn was the son of Armand Edouard Kohn, director of the hospital »Baron de Rothschild," the largest Jewish Hospital in Paris and Suzanne Jenny Netre.
He was a distant relative of the Rothschild Banking Family of England through his mother.
Although Armand was Jewish, the family practised the Roman Catholic faith.
Even though the Kohn family was Catholic they were seen as Jewish by the Nazi's due to their Jewish ancestors.
Georges and his family were arrested in the last week of July, 1944 they were among a group of prominent Jews who had previously been awarded protective status in occupied France.
Georges was among a group of 51 deportees deported in the last transport from the Drancy transit camp in France on August 17, 1944 a week prior to the liberation of Paris, along with his parents, grandmother Jeanne Marie (75), sisters Antoinette (22) and Rose Marie (18) and brother Philippe (21).
His grandmother was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. Rose Marie and Philipe managed to escape on their way to the camps. They would survive the war.
Armand went to Buchenwald and would survive the war.
Susanne and Antoinette were transferred to Bergen-Belsen where they soon died.
Georges was among a group of twenty Jewish children chosen at the behest of Kurt Heissmeyer, by Josef Mengele to be sent from Auschwitz to Neuengamme concentration camp for medical experiments.
At Neuengamme Georges and the other children, 9 other boys and ten girls, from ages five to twelve, were infected with live tuberculosis bacilli by Heissmeyer.
Just days before the war ended, the Nazis decided to kill the children in an effort to hid the experiments done on them. they brought the children to Bullenhaser Damm School, where they were given shots of morphine and hung. Their bodies were buried the next day.
Georges-Andre Kohn was the son of Armand Edouard Kohn, director of the hospital »Baron de Rothschild," the largest Jewish Hospital in Paris and Suzanne Jenny Netre.
He was a distant relative of the Rothschild Banking Family of England through his mother.
Although Armand was Jewish, the family practised the Roman Catholic faith.
Even though the Kohn family was Catholic they were seen as Jewish by the Nazi's due to their Jewish ancestors.
Georges and his family were arrested in the last week of July, 1944 they were among a group of prominent Jews who had previously been awarded protective status in occupied France.
Georges was among a group of 51 deportees deported in the last transport from the Drancy transit camp in France on August 17, 1944 a week prior to the liberation of Paris, along with his parents, grandmother Jeanne Marie (75), sisters Antoinette (22) and Rose Marie (18) and brother Philippe (21).
His grandmother was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. Rose Marie and Philipe managed to escape on their way to the camps. They would survive the war.
Armand went to Buchenwald and would survive the war.
Susanne and Antoinette were transferred to Bergen-Belsen where they soon died.
Georges was among a group of twenty Jewish children chosen at the behest of Kurt Heissmeyer, by Josef Mengele to be sent from Auschwitz to Neuengamme concentration camp for medical experiments.
At Neuengamme Georges and the other children, 9 other boys and ten girls, from ages five to twelve, were infected with live tuberculosis bacilli by Heissmeyer.
Just days before the war ended, the Nazis decided to kill the children in an effort to hid the experiments done on them. they brought the children to Bullenhaser Damm School, where they were given shots of morphine and hung. Their bodies were buried the next day.
Georges-André KOHN was 12 years old and a pupil at the Janson-de-Sailly lycée in Paris when he was deported on the last convoy from Drancy, convoy 79 of August 17, 1944. Aloïs Brunner, then the commanding officer at Drancy, accompanied that convoy when he had to abandon the camp. With him he took hostages, including the Kohn family whom he particularly hated. Georges-André's older brother and sister were able to escape from the convoy, but the rest of the family were deported. Only the father returned, having lost his mother, his wife, and his youngest son. Selected at Auschwitz as a guinea pig along with Jewish children from other countries, including Jacqueline Morgenstern from France, Georges-André was sent to the Neuengamme camp. He was the victim of pseudo-medical experiments. The day before the liberation of the camp, he and his comrades in suffering were hanged in the basement of a Hamburg school, the Bullenhuser Damm. A book with that title tells the story of those Jewish children's martyrdom, and today there is a street in Hamburg called Georges-André KohnStrasse.∼Georges-Andre Kohn was a victim of the Holocaust.
Georges-Andre Kohn was the son of Armand Edouard Kohn, director of the hospital »Baron de Rothschild," the largest Jewish Hospital in Paris and Suzanne Jenny Netre.
He was a distant relative of the Rothschild Banking Family of England through his mother.
Although Armand was Jewish, the family practised the Roman Catholic faith.
Even though the Kohn family was Catholic they were seen as Jewish by the Nazi's due to their Jewish ancestors.
Georges and his family were arrested in the last week of July, 1944 they were among a group of prominent Jews who had previously been awarded protective status in occupied France.
Georges was among a group of 51 deportees deported in the last transport from the Drancy transit camp in France on August 17, 1944 a week prior to the liberation of Paris, along with his parents, grandmother Jeanne Marie (75), sisters Antoinette (22) and Rose Marie (18) and brother Philippe (21).
His grandmother was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. Rose Marie and Philipe managed to escape on their way to the camps. They would survive the war.
Armand went to Buchenwald and would survive the war.
Susanne and Antoinette were transferred to Bergen-Belsen where they soon died.
Georges was among a group of twenty Jewish children chosen at the behest of Kurt Heissmeyer, by Josef Mengele to be sent from Auschwitz to Neuengamme concentration camp for medical experiments.
At Neuengamme Georges and the other children, 9 other boys and ten girls, from ages five to twelve, were infected with live tuberculosis bacilli by Heissmeyer.
Just days before the war ended, the Nazis decided to kill the children in an effort to hid the experiments done on them. they brought the children to Bullenhaser Damm School, where they were given shots of morphine and hung. Their bodies were buried the next day.
Georges-Andre Kohn was the son of Armand Edouard Kohn, director of the hospital »Baron de Rothschild," the largest Jewish Hospital in Paris and Suzanne Jenny Netre.
He was a distant relative of the Rothschild Banking Family of England through his mother.
Although Armand was Jewish, the family practised the Roman Catholic faith.
Even though the Kohn family was Catholic they were seen as Jewish by the Nazi's due to their Jewish ancestors.
Georges and his family were arrested in the last week of July, 1944 they were among a group of prominent Jews who had previously been awarded protective status in occupied France.
Georges was among a group of 51 deportees deported in the last transport from the Drancy transit camp in France on August 17, 1944 a week prior to the liberation of Paris, along with his parents, grandmother Jeanne Marie (75), sisters Antoinette (22) and Rose Marie (18) and brother Philippe (21).
His grandmother was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. Rose Marie and Philipe managed to escape on their way to the camps. They would survive the war.
Armand went to Buchenwald and would survive the war.
Susanne and Antoinette were transferred to Bergen-Belsen where they soon died.
Georges was among a group of twenty Jewish children chosen at the behest of Kurt Heissmeyer, by Josef Mengele to be sent from Auschwitz to Neuengamme concentration camp for medical experiments.
At Neuengamme Georges and the other children, 9 other boys and ten girls, from ages five to twelve, were infected with live tuberculosis bacilli by Heissmeyer.
Just days before the war ended, the Nazis decided to kill the children in an effort to hid the experiments done on them. they brought the children to Bullenhaser Damm School, where they were given shots of morphine and hung. Their bodies were buried the next day.
