Georges Loinger BVO (29 August 1910 – 28 December 2018)[1] was a French soldier during World War II.

During his time in the French Resistance, he helped hundreds of Jewish children escape from occupied France to Switzerland.

He was born on 29 August 1910 in Strasbourg, France (then part of Imperial Germany) to Jewish parents Solomon Loinger (1883–1971) and Mina Werzberg (1886–1981).

[4] Loinger began fighting against Nazi Germany at the start of World War II, but was captured in 1940.

He rescued about 350 Jewish children, and helped them to escape from France to Switzerland,[5] for which he was awarded the Resistance Medal, the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour.