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Gabrielle Weidner was born on August 17, 1914
Gabrielle Weidner was born on August 17, 1914 in Brussels, Belgium. -
Gabrielle Weidner worked for Seventh-day Adventist Church
Gabrielle Weidner worked for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She grew up in collonges, France, near the Swiss border. Her father was a pastor. Gabrielle was baptizes in the Seventh-day Adventist Church faith at the age of 16. She went to a secondary school in London, England. -
Childhood
Gabrielle was the second of four children. Her father was a minister in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. She grew up in the Collonges, France, near the Swiss border. Her father was a pastor while living there. -
The establishment of the Third Reich in 1933.
In 1933 the Third Reich was established, the German leaders proclaimed the rebirth of the Volksgemeinschaft. The Nazi police divide the people into two groups. -
The start of the Holocaust
Nazi Germany murdered approximately six million European Jews, around 2/3 of the Jewish population of Europe. -
The invasion of Poland
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it took control of about 2 million Jews in the lived in that territory. The rest of Poland lived the Soviet Union, which had control of the rest of Poland's pre-war population of 3.3–3.5 million Jews -
The complete Destruction
German planners in November 1939 called for "the complete destruction" of all Poles. Poland under German control was to be cleared of Poles and settled by German colonists. -
France declared war on Germany
On September 3, 1939, a couple of days after Germany invaded Poland, France declared war on Germany. German forces invaded France in May 1940, and Gabrielle went to the south. After the armistice, Gabrielle returned to Paris and went back to working for the church. -
Roma tradition
Because the Roma are traditionally a private people with a culture based on oral history is not as known about their experience during the Holocaust than that of any other group. Bauer writes that this can be attributed to the Roma's distrust and suspicion, and to their humiliation because some of the taboos in Romani culture regarding hygiene and sex were violated at Auschwitz -
final solution
Throughout the spring and summer of 1940, the German army expanded Hitler’s empire in Europe, conquering Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Beginning in 1941, Jews from all over the continent, as well as hundreds of thousands of European Gypsies, were transported to the Polish ghettoes. -
Gabrielle move to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Paris.
Gabrielle worked for the Seventh-day Adventist Church since she was little. Her and her brother moved to the Adventist Church in Paris,France. They both secretly join the resistance. -
Jean Weidner the founded of the Dutch-Paris Underground Railroad
He founded "Dutch-Paris" an under ground railroad and of it location of Lyonnaise became the headquarters. -
Gabrielle time in the resistance.
She became very active in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and she eventually became a secretary at the French-Belgian Union. She traveled into the western Europe and the Foreign Knowledge of languages proved great in her work. -
germans tricks jews
German-occupied Denmark rescued most of its own Jews by encouraging them to Sweden by sea in October 1943. This was possible partly because the German presence in Denmark was small. -
Gabrielle arrested
On Saturday, February 26, 1944, the Gestapo arrested her during 10 a.m. church services. Along with 140 other members of the "Dutch-Paris" network that helped Dutch Jews and political refugees, -
Gabrielle time in jail.
Gabrielle was deported from the Fresnes Prison in Paris to the Ravensbrueck camp after being implicated by a fellow member who was tortured. -
Germans against gays
Around 50,000 German gay men were put in jail between 1933 and 1945, and 5,000–15,000 are estimated to have been sent to concentration camps. -
Gabrielle Weidner died on February 17, 1945.
Gabrielle Weidner died on February 17, 1945 of malnutrition in Keonigsberg -
Recognition
On 24 May 1950, Gabrielle Weidner posthumously received the Dutch Cross of Resistance for her efforts in the war. On the Dutch Orry-la-Ville honorary cemetery her name is written on a plaque dedicated to the Dutch resistors. -
Jean Weidner Renegotiation
He was awarded the Medal of Freedom with gold palm and made an Honorary Officer. He was made an officer of Leopold
