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{{Short description|British photographer (1908β1995)}} {{EngvarB|date=January 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = George Rodger | image = File:George Rodger 1941.png | caption = Rodger in 1941 | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1908|03|19}} | birth_place = [[Hale, Greater Manchester|Hale, Cheshire]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1995|07|24|1908|03|19}} | death_place = [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]], Kent, England | other_names = | organization = [[Magnum Photos]] | spouse = {{plainlist| *Cicely Rodger (died 1949) *{{marriage|Lois "Jinx" Witherspoon|1952}}<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/opinion/IHT-more-to-the-picture-letters-to-the-editor.html|title=Opinion / More to the Picture: LETTER to the EDITOR|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 14, 1994}}</ref>}} | children = 3, including [[Peter Rodger]] | relatives = [[Elliot Rodger]] (grandson) | known_for = | occupation = Photographer }} '''George William Adam Rodger''' (19 March 1908 β 24 July 1995)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/26/obituaries/george-rodger-is-dead-at-87-a-pioneering-photojournalist.html|title=George Rodger Is Dead at 87; A Pioneering Photojournalist|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=26 July 1995|author=Alan Riding}}</ref> was a British [[photojournalism|photojournalist]]. He was noted for his work in Africa, and for photographing mass deaths at [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] during the end of the [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Celinscak|first=Mark|title=Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Concentration Camp|year=2015|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=9781442615700}}</ref>
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