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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. -
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. -
Germany Invades Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. -
Germany invades France
German forces invaded France on May 10, 1940. On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice with Germany which went into effect on June 25, 1940. Under the terms of the armistice, Germany annexed the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine which shared borders with Germany and had long been a bone of contention between the two countries, and Gabrielle fled to the south. -
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 founder 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. -
Acts of resistance
As a significant contributor to the French resistance she has been responsible for the rescue of at least 1,080 persons, including 800 Dutch Jews and more than 112 downed Allied airmen. -
Gabrielle gets 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. -
Gabrielle Weidner died on February 17, 1945.
Gabrielle Weidner died on February 17, 1945, of malnutrition in Koenigsberg just days after the Russians liberated the area. -
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
