John W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2264) interviewed by Samuel Kenner,

Videotape testimony of John W., a Dutch Seventh-Day Adventist, who was born in approximately 1910. He recalls being taught great respect for Jews by his father, a minister; living in Paris in 1940; German invasion; moving to Lyon; joining Amities chrétiennes, an underground organization to save Jews; organizing a network to assist Jews to escape to Switzerland; his arrest in 1942; torture and interrogation in front of Klaus Barbie; release for lack of proof; involving his friends and family in the network; his father's arrest in Holland for speaking against the Nazis; smuggling American pilots to Spain; arrest of a network member who exposed many of them (his own sister was arrested and died in a camp in Poland); being informed in Geneva that he should travel to England; arrest in Toulouse; being sentenced to death; escape; and being smuggled to England. Mr. W. discusses the importance of his religious beliefs to his work saving Jews and recognition by Yad Vashem.