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

Hans Schippers

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2019

Westerweel Group: Non-Conformist Resistance Against Nazi Germany

A Joint Rescue Effort of Dutch Idealists and Dutch-German Zionists

Hans Schippers

Volume 11 in the series New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110582703

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About this book

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.

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Hans Schippers, Netherlands Institute of War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Images Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Timeline Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Palestine pioneers, an International Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
2. Zionism and Palestine Pioneers in the Netherlands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Joop Westerweel and the Left-Wing Radical Milieu in the 1920s and 1930s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. The Birth of the Westerweel Group Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
5. Expansion Activities and Reinforcements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6. A Second Hiding Operation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
7. The Search for Safety Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8. Hiding in Limburg, Germany and France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
9. Westerbork and Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
10. The German Counter-Offensive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
11. Les Hollandais, the Westerweel Group in France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
12. After the Liberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
13. Helpers and Non-conformists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Glossary of Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians of the resistence during WW II and every scholar with an interest in the Holocaust, Zionism, American Jewry
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 276
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 30
- Maps: 3
Keywords: Widerstand; Zweiter Weltkrieg; Niederlande

eBook

Published: February 19, 2019
ISBN: 9783110582703

Hardcover

Published: February 19, 2019
ISBN: 9783110580006

Paperback

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110736823