Herbert Herz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French resistance fighter
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Place of Birth: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
About Herbert Herz
- Herbert Herz (known as Georges-Hubert Charnay by false papers) (1924-2016) is a former fighter with the French Resistance in the FTP-MOI, a member of the Carmagnole and Liberté squads of the Lyon region during World War II.
- His Jewish family emigrated to France in 1934 to escape Nazi persecution.
- In 1996 he was awarded the LĂ©gion d'honneur.
- He wrote a memoir in 2007 to publicize the role of the many foreigners, mostly Jewish, in the armed Resistance against the Nazis in France.
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