Adolphe Steg (27 January 1925 – 11 April 2021) was a Czechoslovak-born French urologist and Holocaust survivor.
[2] His father, Mordechai Steg, born on 19 April 1895 in Bistra, Austria-Hungary, took his family to Paris in 1928.
Adolphe, a student at the Lycée Voltaire, bore a yellow badge as required for Jews living in German-occupied territory.
[7] He escaped the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup on 16 July 1942 with false papers, and, thanks to a smuggler, was able to cross the demarcation line into the Zone libre.
Additionally, he was vice-president of the Mission d'étude sur la spoliation des Juifs de France [fr].
They had two sons: Jean-Michel,[20] who became Senior Advisor of the bank Greenhill & Co. in the United States, and Philippe Gabriel [fr], who works as a cardiologist at the Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital.
His elder brother, Henri (1922–2016), lived in Paris and was an active member of the French Resistance and the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism.