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George Rodocanachi
George Rodocanachi (27 February 1875 – 1944) was a British-born physician of Greek descent who helped Allied escapees and Jewish refugees in Vichy France.
Biography.
Rodocanachi was born in Liverpool, England, to a Greek family. He studied in Marseille, received his medical degree in Paris in 1903, and opened a pediatric practice in Marseille. In 1907 he married Fanny Vlasto in London and they settled in Marseille. Their only child Constantine was born in 1908.
At the outbreak of World
Rodocanachi Sons & Co. did not survive long after Emmanuel's retirement in 1925; it collapsed in the Great Depression as a result of bad debts due from failed German and Italian trading partners.
Sources.
- Stuart Thompstone 'Rodocanachi, Michael Emmanuel' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription)
- Christopher Long, Rodocanachi Family of Chios
- The Times "Rodocanachi Sons & Co" 27 Nov 1929 & 2 Sep 1933