Georges-André Kohn
Georges-André Kohn was born on April 23, 1932, in Paris, France.
He had three older siblings: Rose-Marie, Philippe, and Antoinette.
Georges-André was murdered at the age of twelve at Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg.
Georges-André's father, Armand Kohn, was Secretary General of the Rothschild Foundation in Paris.
On the morning of July 28, 1944, four weeks before the city was liberated, a small bus stopped outside his house. Alois Brunner, the head of the Gestapo, had come with two SS men to arrest the family of seven: the parents, the four children, and the grandmother.
On August 17, 1944, the deportees' train departed. Three days later, prisoners broke the bars of the windows. Thirty people fled, including Philippe Kohn, the eldest son, and his sister Rose-Marie.
Grandmother Jeanne Kohn, 80, was murdered in Auschwitz, mother Suzanne and daughter Antoinette in Bergen-Belsen.
Georges-André's father survived the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Philippe Kohn, who only learnt what had happened to his little brother long after his father died, lived in Paris until his death. He often visited Hamburg.
To Günther Schwarberg, who found the Kohn family in Paris, he said:
'You are my brother.'
Philippe Kohn was the Honorary President of the Children of Bullenhuser Damm Association.
The Georges-André-Kohn-Strasse, a street in Hamburg-Burgwedel, is named after Georges-André.
