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5Apr

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Dr Xavier Dor, embryologist

Dr Xavier Dor ‑ a French embryologist, well known for his activism against abortions – died on 4 April 2020 from Covid-19. Dor was born into a wealthy, Catholic family. His father was the director of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. He had four children with his wife, Françoise Dugé de Bernonville, daughter of Jacques de Bernonville. Dor was a doctor specializing in embryology and practiced at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. He was also a researcher in cardiac embryology at Inserm and a lecturer at Pierre and Marie Curie University. Dor died on 4 April 2020 in Paris from COVID-19 at age 91 during the pandemic. Dor was the founder and president of the SOS tout-petits association. He often led protests in front...

5Apr

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Diane Wilson Bahun, Nurse

Diane Wilson Bahun – an ICU Nurse in Paris, France – succumbed to COVID-19. Source: Golfe News Please help us in adding details.

4Apr

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Henri Ecochard, military officer

Henri Ecochard ‑ a French military officer who served in the Free French Forces during World War II – died on 3 April 2020 in Levallois-Perret at the age of 96 due to COVID-19. He is known for compiling a list of fighters for Free France. Ecochard was born on 24 April 1923 in Cholet. His father was a doctor based in Airvault, who was heavily pacifist due to the memory of World War I. He was interested in international relations from a young age. Ecochard attended the Lycée Descartes in Tours. An anti-fascist, he was opposed to the anti-parliamentary ideals of François de La Rocque. He was also opposed to the Munich Agreement, which allowed Adolf Hitler to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. When war was finally declared in France, Ecochard raised the Fla...

4Apr

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Frida Wattenberg, activist

Frida Wattenberg ‑ a member of the French Resistance – died on 3 April, 2020, due to COVID-19. Wattenberg was born in 1924 to Jewish parents from Poland. She grew up in The Marais quarter of Paris. She joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement in the late 1930s. During World War II, she studied at the Lycée Victor Hugo in Paris. Wattenberg also made several collages of posters for the French Resistance. In 1941, Wattenberg joined the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), for which she made false papers for Jewish people to escape to the south of France. Her mother was arrested during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, and Wattenberg managed to secure her release by proving that she worked in a factory supplying clothes to members of the German army. In 1943,...

3Apr

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Arnold Sowinski, footballer

Arnold Sowinski, a French footballer who played with RC Lens, died from Covid-19 on 2 April 2020. He also managed RC Lens on four different occasions. Sowinski was born in France and was of Polish descent.

2Apr

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Bernard Epin, writer

Bernard Epin ‑ a French writer, literary critic, and communist activist – died on 1 April 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. Born into a working-class family, Epin attended primary school in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He joined the French Communist Party in 1954 and the editorial team of L'École et la Nation, a communist magazine, in 1957. After his military service in Algeria, Epin became editorial secretary of the magazine. He also collaborated with the weekly Révolution, the monthly Regards, and L'Humanité. In addition to his criticism in children's literature, Epin wrote ten essays, including Les livres de vos enfants, parlons-en in 1985. This essay defended the idea of emancipation in children's reading...

2Apr

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Dora Werzberg, nurse & social worker

Dora Werzberg Amelan, a French nurse and social worker, succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020. In 1942, she rescued Jewish children through Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE). She worked in the Camp de Rivesaltes and the Gurs internment camp, and took care of children who had survived the Nazi concentration camps. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Werzberg was born in Strasbourg, the daughter of Karl Werzberg and Gisèla Blum, who were Jewish emigrants from Poland. The family moved to Antwerp when Werzberg was ten, and stayed until the death of her mother and the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany. She then joined a Zionist youth movement. Werzberg had two sisters, Manda, who died of sepsis in 1942, and Simone Be...

1Apr

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Lydie Difoukidi, caregiver

LydieDifoukidi – a caregiver in nursing home at Mée-sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne), France – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 1 April 2020. Lydie was 51 years old. Source: Medscape Please help us in adding details.

30Mar

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Henri Tincq, journalist

Henri Tincq ‑ a French journalist and Vatican expert – succumbed to Covid-19 on 29 March 2020. He was a religious specialist for the newspaper Le Monde from 1985 to 2008 after having worked for the newspaper La Croix. He has also worked for the magazine Slate. Tincq obtained a degree in philosophy from Sciences Po in Paris and a degree in journalism from the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille. His most notable work is Larousse des religions, and he chaired the Association des journalistes de l’information religieuse (AJIR) from 1994 to 1999. Tincq had an interest in the history of popes. Following the election of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, he established a list of "progressive objectives" for the Catholi...

30Mar

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Francis Rapp, historian

Francis Rapp ‑ a French medievalist specializing in the history of Alsace and medieval Germany – succumbed to Covid-19 on 29 March 2020. An emeritus university professor, he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres since 1993. Born in Strasbourg, the son of lawyer Léon Rapp, Rapp was born into a Catholic and patriotic family. He did his secondary studies at the Jean Sturm Gymnasium and practiced scouting within the Scouts de France. Breaking with forced incorporation, he joined a clandestine scouting group that gathered about twenty young people at the Mont Sainte-Odile from December 1942. At the end of the 1960s he joined the Association des Guides et Scouts d'Europe and was commissioner of the Alsace Province ...