[George Francis Jack Bergman (1900-1979)].

Obituary for George Francis Bergman (né Georg Franz Bergmann).Georg Franz Bergmann was born in 1900 in Lissa, Posen. After finishing his legal studies in various German universities and joining various fraternities, he worked as a lawyer in Munich from 1929 to 1933, when he escaped Nazism to Paris. In 1939 he joined the Foreign Legion in North Africa, but was interned by the Vichy government in 1940. After his liberation in 1943 he joined the British Army and emigrated to Australia in 1947, where he changed his name to George Francis Bergman. He eventually joined the civil service in Australia and became highly active in the Australian Jewish Historical Society, publishing many articles for its journal. Bergman died in 1979 at Vila, New Hebrides, Australia