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= // Jean Deffaugt // // (Rescuer) // =

Jean Deffaugt was the mayor of the French town Annemasse. While the Frenchmen served as mayor he rescued and aided two hundred Jewish people who were caught crossing the French border. This had a big impact on the war because it would have been two hundred more Holocaust victims without Jean Defffaugt. He Rescued them by taking them away when the Gestapo prison was full then he said he would bring them back, but he put them in safe houses so they would never be found. He aided them by bringing them food and blankets when they were in the Gestapo prison. In one incident he saved twenty eight Jewish boys and girls aged four through sixteen. He worked with a corrupt Gestapo Commander to free the Jews that were held captive in the Gestapo prison once known as the Pax Hotel.



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