Koffer Georges-André Kohn | Suitcase Georges-André Kohn

Georges-André Kohn was born on 23 April 1932 in Paris. On 18 July 1944, the whole family was arrested and imprisoned in the Drancy internment camp near Paris. Georges-André’s siblings Philippe and Rose-Marie were on the last deportation train to leave Drancy for Auschwitz on 17 August 1944. Three days after the train’s departure, they managed to escape with a group of other prisoners against their father’s express wishes and survived in hiding until the liberation of France. The father Armand Kohn was taken to Buchenwald, while Suzanne Kohn and her daughter Antoinette were taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died. Georges-André’s grandmother was murdered in Auschwitz, and Georges-André himself was imprisoned in the children’s camp at Auschwitz. On 28 November 1944, Georges-André Kohn was taken to the Neuengamme concentration camp, and he was murdered on Bullenhuser Damm on 20 April 1945 aged 12.