Jean Origer (25 May 1877 - 17 September 1942) was a

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small land ...

ish

cleric Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the t ...

and director of the newspaper ''

Luxemburger Wort ''Luxemburger Wort'' is a German-language Luxembourgish daily newspaper. There is an English edition named the ''Luxembourg Times''. History and profile ''Luxemburger Wort'' has been published since 1848. The paper was founded just three days a ...

''. Jean Origer was born in Esch-Alzette and later became a member of the

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. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

, He was interned in the

Mauthausen concentration camp Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany ...

where he died. A street in his hometown of Esch-Alzette is named after him.

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Site of luxembourgian and belgian clergymen who died in World War 2
1877 births 1942 deaths People from Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourgian clergy Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg) from Sud People who died in Mauthausen concentration camp Newspaper editors Luxembourgian people who died in Nazi concentration camps {{Luxembourg-politician-stub

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