Memorial Abbé Georges Goffinet

Georges Goffinet was born in 1905 in Namoussart (Neufchâteau region).
From 1919 he attended grammar school in Bastogne. In July 1931 he was ordained as a priest.
He started as a vicar in St-Hubert. In 1937 he became pastor in Hodister (parish of Rendeux) and in September 1939 pastor in Musson (on the border with France and Luxembourg).

During the occupation by Nazi Germany, he supported the resistance and immediately joined the "Armée de la Libération" (AL - liberation army).
In January 1941 he was in charge of the AL for the entire province of Luxembourg.
He was called Major, his pseudonym was "La Chouette" (the owl).
The AL's main mission was to recruit members
The AL was engaged in the sabotage of communications infrastructures, the development of a military intelligence service for special operations, underground press and assistance to "illegals" (work refusers, airmen, allies, escaped prisoners of war, etc.).

To avoid arrest, Goffinet fled to England, but he was arrested in Bordeaux on July 29, 1943. On August 11, 1943, he was transferred to the prison of Aachen, from there to the prison of Liège where he was sentenced to deportation by the German War Council to Germany.
He first stayed in Gross-Strehliz, (Silesia). After several transfers, he finally ended up in the Dora concentration camp. On April 14, 1944 he was, together with others, shot by the SS at the age of 39.

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