Westerweel, along with Joachim Simon and other Jewish colleagues, helped save around 200 to 300 Jews by organizing an escape route, smuggling Jews through Belgium, France and on into neutral Switzerland and Spain. He was arrested on 10 March 1944, after leading a group of Jewish children to safety in Spain, whilst on his way back to the Netherlands at the Dutch/Belgian border. He was executed at Herzogenbusch concentration camp in August 1944.[1]
^Johan (Joop) Westerweel | "Their Fate Will Be My Fate Too…" Teachers Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust An online exhibition by Yad Vashem. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
^Warren I. Cohen: Profiles in Humanity: The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights ; Chapter 10; page 158
Further readingedit
Schippers, Hans (2019). "Joop Westerweel and the Left-Wing Radical Milieu in the 1920s and 1930s". Westerweel Group: Non-Conformist Resistance Against Nazi Germany: A Joint Rescue Effort of Dutch Idealists and Dutch-German Zionists. De Gruyter. pp. 33–59. doi:10.1515/9783110582703. ISBN978-3-11-058270-3. S2CID 166468317.
External linksedit
Teachers Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust. Yad Vashem
ONA SIMAITE, JOOP WESTERWEEL, IRENA SENDLEROWA. USHMM
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