Vadnai, Georges, 1915-2002

LC control no.	n 2004147402
Personal name heading	Vadnai, Georges, 1915-2002 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Vadnai, György, 1915-2002
Located	Subotica (Subotica, Serbia) Vienna (Austria) Paris (France) Tarbes (France) Clermont-Ferrand (France) Gurs (France) Le Vernet (France) Lyon (France) Lausanne (Switzerland)
Birth date	1915-07-23
Death date	2002-02-04
Place of birth	Gödöllö (Hungary)
Place of death	Lausanne (Switzerland)
Field of activity	Judaism World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance Zionism--Youth movements Jews--History--Croatia Jews--History--Slovenia
Affiliation	Wiener Israelitische Theologische Lehranstalt Universität Wien. Philosophische Fakultät Séminaire israélite de France Université de Paris Zionist Youth Movement World Union of Jewish students
Profession or occupation	Rabbis Zionists
Found in	Jamais la lumière ne s'est éteinte, c1999: t.p. (Georges Vadnai; Grand Rabbin de Lausanne) p. 167 (born 1915, Gödöllö, near Budapest, Hungary) note from Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Memoirs of a Jew born in 1915 near Budapest. In 1920 the family fled to Yugoslavia to avoid Hungarian persecution. Vadnai attended rabbinic school in Vienna between 1934-38 and continued his studies in Paris after the Anschluss. Between 1940-42 he completed his studies in Clermont-Ferrand and was arrested at the end of 1942. He spent two years in various prisons and in the camps of Vernet and Gurs. Having survived typhoid fever in Vernet in 1943, he was sent on sick leave to Lyon, where he was hospitalized until the liberation. He became a rabbi in Lausanne in 1948 and was elected as the chief rabbi of Lausanne in 1970. His mother and sister survived the Holocaust in hiding in Budapest; his father was deported to Auschwitz from Subotica and killed in 1944) French Wikipedia, viewed December 20, 2023 (born György Vadnai on July 23, 1915 in Gödöllö and died on February 4, 2002 in Lausanne; participated in the French Resistance during the Second World War; participated in the manufacture and delivery of false papers and the transport of weapons; was arrested on December 9, 1942, tried for possession of false papers, and interned in the Gurs camp; was transferred to Vernet but escaped on March 15, 1943 joining the Jewish Army in Lyon; married Anne-Laure after the liberation of Paris; became general secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students in 1945; defended his thesis at the Sorbonne on Jews in Croatia and Slovenia in 1951; rabbi in Lausanne from 1948 and was Chief Rabbi of Lausanne from 1970 to his retirement in 1990) <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Vadna%C3%AF>