World Jewish Congress - Joop Westerweel was a Dutch resistance fighter, who saved the lives of countless Jews through the underground railroad he had set up. For his heroics, he was killed
![File:Cabotschool in Amsterdam omgedoopt tot Joop Westerweelschool in bijzijn van weth, Bestanddeelnr 933-6765.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Cabotschool in Amsterdam omgedoopt tot Joop Westerweelschool in bijzijn van weth, Bestanddeelnr 933-6765.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Cabotschool_in_Amsterdam_omgedoopt_tot_Joop_Westerweelschool_in_bijzijn_van_weth%2C_Bestanddeelnr_933-6765.jpg)
File:Cabotschool in Amsterdam omgedoopt tot Joop Westerweelschool in bijzijn van weth, Bestanddeelnr 933-6765.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
![IDEA - ALM : Joop Westerweel, the leader of an underground group in the Netherlands; photographed under an assumed identity. IDEA - ALM : Joop Westerweel, the leader of an underground group in the Netherlands; photographed under an assumed identity.](https://www.infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/GFH/0000008947/0000008947_1_web.jpg)
IDEA - ALM : Joop Westerweel, the leader of an underground group in the Netherlands; photographed under an assumed identity.
![Israel 1964-1965. Gal'ed Kibbutz Gal'ed. Monument to the Dutch resistance man Joop Westerweel, died in 1944 Date: 1 January 1960 Location: Gal'ed, Israel Keywords: persecution of Jews, memorials, kibbutz, resistance fighters Personal Israel 1964-1965. Gal'ed Kibbutz Gal'ed. Monument to the Dutch resistance man Joop Westerweel, died in 1944 Date: 1 January 1960 Location: Gal'ed, Israel Keywords: persecution of Jews, memorials, kibbutz, resistance fighters Personal](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AR5RMR/israel-1964-1965-galed-kibbutz-galed-monument-to-the-dutch-resistance-man-joop-westerweel-died-in-1944-date-1-january-1960-location-galed-israel-keywords-persecution-of-jews-memorials-kibbutz-resistance-fighters-personal-name-westerweel-joop-2AR5RMR.jpg)
Israel 1964-1965. Gal'ed Kibbutz Gal'ed. Monument to the Dutch resistance man Joop Westerweel, died in 1944 Date: 1 January 1960 Location: Gal'ed, Israel Keywords: persecution of Jews, memorials, kibbutz, resistance fighters Personal
![IDEA - ALM : The daughter of Joop Westerweel, a Righteous Among the Nations from the Netherlands, visiting a memorial site for her father and his underground comrades IDEA - ALM : The daughter of Joop Westerweel, a Righteous Among the Nations from the Netherlands, visiting a memorial site for her father and his underground comrades](https://www.infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/idea/65467%201.jpg)