Marcel Victor Gross

Male14 January 1920–14 April 1952

Brief Life History of Marcel Victor

When Marcel Victor Gross was born on 14 January 1920, in Orschwihr, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France, his father, Charles Gross, was 29 and his mother, Marie Joséphine Brogly, was 30. He died on 14 April 1952, in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France, at the age of 32.

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Family Time Line

Charles Gross
1890–1956
Marie Joséphine Brogly
1889–1964
Marcel Victor Gross
1920–1952

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    Siblings (1)

    World Events (3)

    1924

    Age 4

    Chamonix, France hosts Winter Olympic Games.

    1924

    Age 4

    Paris, France hosts Summer Olympic Games.

    1939

    Age 19

    Second World War. Defeat and occupation by Germany. General de Gaulle leads the Resistance from London and Algiers. Allied victory came on May 8, 1945.

    Name Meaning

    German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a big man, from Middle High German grōz ‘large, corpulent’, German gross. This surname is also established in some other parts of Europe, most notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia it is also found (in Slovenia almost exclusively) in the Slavicized form Gros (see also 3 below). The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol .

    English: descriptive nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros, grosse, groce ’large; heavy’, also meaning ‘simple, plain’, from Old French gros ‘big, fat’ (from Latin grossus ‘thick’), a word of ancient Germanic origin, thus etymologically the same word as in 1 above.

    Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian, Polish, Croatian or other Slavic Gros , itself of German origin (see 1 above).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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