Westerweel Group: Non-Conformist Resistance Against Nazi Germany : A Joint Rescue Effort of Dutch Idealists and Dutch-German Zionists / Hans Schippers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schippers, Hans, Author.

Series:

New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; 11.

New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands.

World War, 1939-1945.

Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Netherlands.

Westerweel, Joop, 1899-1944.

Westerweel, Joop.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages).

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book about the Westerweel Group tells the fascinating story about the cooperation of some ten non-conformist Dutch socialists and a group of Palestine Pioneers who mostly had arrived in the Netherlands from Germany and Austria the late thirties. With the help of Joop Westerweel, the headmaster of a Rotterdam Montessori School, they found hiding places in the Netherlands. Later on, an escape route to France via Belgium was worked out. Posing as Atlantic Wall workers, the pioneers found their way to the south of France. With the help of the Armée Juive, a French Jewish resistance organization, some 70 pioneers reached Spain at the beginning of 1944. From here they went to Palestine. Finding and maintaining the escape route cost the members of the Westerweel Group dear. With some exceptions, all members of the group were arrested by the Germans. Joop Westerweel was executed in August 1944. Other members, both in the Netherlands and France, were send to German concentration camps, where some perished.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Images

Timeline

Introduction

1. Palestine pioneers, an International Movement

2. Zionism and Palestine Pioneers in the Netherlands

3. Joop Westerweel and the Left-Wing Radical Milieu in the 1920s and 1930s

4. The Birth of the Westerweel Group

5. Expansion Activities and Reinforcements

6. A Second Hiding Operation

7. The Search for Safety

8. Hiding in Limburg, Germany and France

9. Westerbork and Beyond

10. The German Counter-Offensive

11. Les Hollandais, the Westerweel Group in France

12. After the Liberation

13. Helpers and Non-conformists

Bibliography

Glossary of Terms

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110582703

3110582708

9783110580143

3110580144

OCLC:

1089221888