French Resistance hero Georges Loinger, who used his ingenuity and athletic prowess to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during World War II, has died at the age of 108. Another ruse involved dressing children up as mourners and taking them to a cemetery whose wall abutted the French side of the border. Between April 1943 and June 1944, OSE workers and other rescuers helped hundreds of children escape to Switzerland across the lightly guarded border. “I threw the ball a hundred meters toward the Swiss border and told the children to run and get the ball. It became too dangerous to play ball with the children like this.

Source: Egypt Independent December 29, 2018 19:30 UTC