Victor Gerson

Haim Victor Gerson DSO, LdH (1896 – 14 April 1983), code name Rene, was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War. He organised the Vic escape line in France. Escape lines helped Allied soldiers and airmen, SOE agents, and other people in danger to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, usually by crossing the Pyrenees mountains into neutral Spain.

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