Flee the Captor

John Henry Weidner, a hero of history's greatest holocaust, saved the lives of 800 Jews, more than 100 Allied aviators, and many others who fled the nightmare of Nazism. Others with less moral fortitude may have closed their eyes to the brutality about them, but Weidner refused to be cowed, and so braved imprisonment and torture for his humanitarian efforts. "I asked John Weidner why he had risked his life repeatedly to save so many. His answer was brief and to the point: "They were God's children; they were human beings.'" - Haskell L. Lazere "Why was it that John accepted all these risks so readily? . . . he had that directness, that simplicity of faith, which made him realize that he was at all times in the hands of a loving God. . . . And it was because of this dimension of John's life that he, a Seventh-day Adventist, and I, the Reformed pastor, regarded ourselves . . . as comrades in a common human cause." - W. A. Visser `t Hooft