December 31, 2018

"I threw the ball 100 metres towards the Swiss border and told the children to run and get the ball. They ran after the ball and this is how they crossed."

"After that, the Italians left France and the German came in. It became too dangerous to play ball with the children like this. With the Germans we didn’t play these games.”

From "French Resistance hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children dies aged 108/Georges Loinger escaped from German camp and spent rest of the war helping children cross Swiss border" (The Guardian).

6 comments:

Rob said...

He threw a ball 100 meters? I don’t think so.

rhhardin said...

It doesn't work for getting dogs across the border.

Expat(ish) said...

@Rob - that struck me too. Perhaps it was downhill. I've had my longest golf shots on elevated tee courses....

-XC

Howard said...

Fucking illegal

rcocean said...

I don't know what's more amazing, he threw a ball 110 yards, or he lived to 108.

stevew said...

Hell of an arm on that guy, would make a great center fielder.