- 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."--Back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Westerweelgroep en de Palestinapioniers. English
- Series
- New perspectives on modern Jewish history, Volume 11
New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; v. 11.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Schippers, Hans, 1946- author.
- Published
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]
©2019
- Locale
- Netherlands
- Edition
- Revised version of the Dutch edition
- Contents
-
Palestine pioneers, an international movement
Zionism and Palestine pioneers in the Netherlands
Joop Westerweel and the left-wing radical milieu in the 1920s and 1930s
The birth of the Westerweel Group
Expansion activities and reinforcements
A second hiding operation
The search for safety
Hiding in Limburg, Germany and France
Westerbork and beyond
The German counter-offensive
Les Hollandais, the Westerweel group in France
After the liberation
Helpers and non-conformists.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Salfrais, R. J., translator.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Palestine pioneers, an international movement -- Zionism and Palestine pioneers in the Netherlands -- Joop Westerweel and the left-wing radical milieu in the 1920s and 1930s -- The birth of the Westerweel Group -- Expansion activities and reinforcements -- A second hiding operation -- The search for safety -- Hiding in Limburg, Germany and France -- Westerbork and beyond -- The German counter-offensive -- Les Hollandais, the Westerweel group in France -- After the liberation -- Helpers and non-conformists.
In English, translated from the Dutch.
