Weidmann, František (* 23.2.1910)

Identifier
PERSON.ITI.1951990
Type of Entity
Person

History

Born 1910 in Prague. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. From 1930 to 1931, while studying law, served as a chairman of the Kapper Academic Society, student organization of the Czech Jewish movement. In September 1939, he was ordered by the Nazis to be the chairman of the Jewish Community in Prague, a position that also made him responsible for all Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Transported to Terezín in Januray 1943. Deported to Auschwitz with the last transport from Terezím on 28 October 1944.