Georges André Kohn

Who was Georges André Kohn?

Georges André Kohn was a distant relative of the Rothschild banking family of England. His father Armand Edouard Kohn was the manager of the Rothschild Hospital in Paris, and his mother Suzanne Jenny was a first cousin of Bertrand Léopold Goldschmidt, son-in-law of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild. Georges André's father was Jewish while but he, his mother and his elder brother and sisters were practicing Roman Catholics

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, sisters Antoinette and Rose Marie and brother Philippe.

The railroad car they were deported in was attached to the end of the last train out of Drancy which also carried Drancy commandant SS Hauptsturmführer Alois Brunner and other German military personnel. They intended upon using the 51 Jewish deportees as potential hostages.