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There is little evidence for this assertion, and it likely stems from a "Peter Rodger' being listed on a British Jewish film site.<ref>https://ukjewishfilm.org/people/peter-rodger/</ref> | There is little evidence for this assertion, and it likely stems from a "Peter Rodger' being listed on a British Jewish film site.<ref>https://ukjewishfilm.org/people/peter-rodger/</ref> | ||
Peter Rodger's father was the British photojournalist George Rodger (of predominately Scottish descent<ref>https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/iconic-images/george-rodger-1908-1995-iconic-photographer-15402</ref>), who was famous for being the first to photograph the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945.<ref>https://ejlw.eu/article/download/36907/34435/46236</ref> | Peter Rodger's father was the British photojournalist George Rodger (of predominately Scottish descent<ref>https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/iconic-images/george-rodger-1908-1995-iconic-photographer-15402</ref>), who was famous for being the first to photograph the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945.<ref>https://ejlw.eu/article/download/36907/34435/46236</ref> | ||
Peter Rodger's mother is the American Journalist Lois "Jinx" Rodger (née Witherspoon, an Anglo-Scottish [from the border regions of the former Kind of Strathclyde] surname https://www.houseofnames.com/witherspoon-family-crest). There is no strong evidence Lois Rodger is of Jewish descent, with all reporting on her invariably describing her as a generic "American".<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/opinion/IHT-more-to-the-picture-letters-to-the-editor.html</ref> In 2008 Lois Rodger was interviewed by the Jewish Chronicle, which further did not mention any Jewish ancestry on behalf of her or her (then late) husband George.<ref>https://www.thejc.com/news/news/images-a-war-photographer-could-not-bear-to-look-at-1.6145</ref> | Peter Rodger's mother is the American Journalist Lois "Jinx" Rodger (née Witherspoon, an Anglo-Scottish [from the border regions of the former Kind of Strathclyde] surname<ref>https://www.houseofnames.com/witherspoon-family-crest</ref>). There is no strong evidence Lois Rodger is of Jewish descent, with all reporting on her invariably describing her as a generic "American".<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/opinion/IHT-more-to-the-picture-letters-to-the-editor.html</ref> In 2008 Lois Rodger was interviewed by the Jewish Chronicle, which further did not mention any Jewish ancestry on behalf of her or her (then late) husband George.<ref>https://www.thejc.com/news/news/images-a-war-photographer-could-not-bear-to-look-at-1.6145</ref> | ||
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