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Oral history interview with John H. Weidner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1989.67.94 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0094

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    Oral history interview with John H. Weidner

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    John H. Weidner describes his upbringing in the Netherlands; deciding to hide Jews; his participation in the underground movement; helping refugees who came into France from Germany when he lived in Lyon; helping Jews escape to Switzerland, France, and Spain; the anxieties over persecution that still remain with him; being arrested and traveling later with false papers; the physical effects of war; the arrest and murder of his sister in a camp because she had hidden Jews; helping Allied airmen who landed in Holland; and immigrating to the United States and settling in Los Angeles, CA.
    Interviewee
    John H. Weidner
    Interviewer
    Gay Block
    Malka Drucker
    Date
    interview:  1987 April 08

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Weidner, John H.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Gay Block
    Provenance
    Gay Block and Malka Drucker produced the interview with John H. Weidner on April 8, 1987 for their book "Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust," Holmes & Meier, 1992, as well as their documentary film "They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch received the tapes of the interviews from Malka Drucker and Gay Block in March 1989.
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