这本关于Westerweel集团的书讲述了一个引人入胜的故事，讲述了大约十位不墨守成规的荷兰社会党人和一群巴勒斯坦先驱者的合作。这些先驱者大多在30年代末从德国和奥地利抵达荷兰。在鹿特丹蒙台梭利学校校长约普·韦斯特维尔的帮助下，他们在荷兰找到了藏身之处。后来，一条经由比利时逃往法国的路线被制定出来。这些先驱者假扮成大西洋壁工，来到了法国南部。在法国犹太抵抗组织Armeée Juive的帮助下，大约70名拓荒者于1944年初抵达西班牙。他们从这里前往巴勒斯坦。寻找和维护逃生路线花费了Westerweel小组成员高昂的费用。除了一些例外，该组织的所有成员都被德国人逮捕。乔普·韦斯特维尔于1944年8月被处决。荷兰和法国的其他成员被送往德国集中营，一些人在那里死亡。
Westerweel Group: Non-Conformist Resistance Against Nazi Germany (New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History, 11)
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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