Weidner, John Henry, 1912-1994
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Name (Hebrew)
ויידנר, יוהאן הנדריק, 1912-1994
Name (Latin)
Weidner, John Henry, 1912-1994
Other forms of name
Weidner, Jean Henri, 1912-1994
Weidner, Johan Hendrik, 1912-1994
Date of birth
1912-10-22
Date of death
1994-05-21
Other designation
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Medal of Freedom
Place of birth
Brussels (Belgium)
Place of death
Monterey Park (Calif.)
Associated country
Netherlands
Place of residence/headquarters
Lyon (France)
Field of activity
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Rescue
World War, 1939-1945--Jews-- Rescue World War, 1939-1945--Search and rescue operations World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements
Associate group
Dutch-Paris (Organization)
Seventh-Day Adventists
Occupation
Guerrillas
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Gewone helden : de Dutch-Paris ontsnappingslijn 1942-1945, 2016:page 29 (Jean Weidner, born 1912 in Brussels, of Dutch parents; Seventh-Day Adventist) page 368 (Weidner, Jean Henri)
- Weidner Foundation website, 26 June 2017(John Henry Weidner, used in the website's German, English, Spanish, French and Dutch pages; in WWII he helped save Jews, Allied airmen, and political refugees; awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Truman; moved to the United States where he settled in Southern California; he died in 1994)
- Yad Vashem website, 26 June 2017(Jean Weidner, Jean-Henri Weidner; leader of Dutch-Paris, an organization which saved approximately 800 Jews and 200 non-Jews, including Allied airmen who had been downed over France, clerics whose assistance for Jews had provoked the displeasure of the occupation authorities, and political refugees; he worked out of Lyon; on May 4, 1978, Yad Vashem recognized Jean-Henri Weidner as Righteous Among the Nations)
- Los Angeles Times website, 26 June 2017(23 May 1994 article: John Henry Weidner has died at his home in Monterey Park; he was a leader of the Dutch-Paris underground, which operated escape routes from war-torn Holland, Belgium and France into neutral Switzerland)
- VIAF, 26 June 2017(Johan Hendrik Weidner, John Henry Weidner, Jean Henri Weidner)