Weidner, John Henry, 1912-1994

LC control no.	no2017083540
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Weidner, John Henry, 1912-1994 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Weidner, Jean Henri, 1912-1994 Weidner, Johan Hendrik, 1912-1994
Associated country	Netherlands
Located	Lyon (France)
Birth date	1912
Death date	1994
Place of birth	Brussels (Belgium)
Place of death	Monterey Park (Calif.)
Field of activity	World War, 1939-1945--Jews-- Rescue World War, 1939-1945--Search and rescue operations World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements
Affiliation	Dutch-Paris (Organization) Seventh-Day Adventists
Profession or occupation	Guerrillas
Found in	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)