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
![Yad Vashem on Twitter: "Righteous Among the Nations Joop Westerweel was executed in the Vught concentration camp #OTD 11 August 1944 Realizing that hiding was not sufficient to save the Jews, the Yad Vashem on Twitter: "Righteous Among the Nations Joop Westerweel was executed in the Vught concentration camp #OTD 11 August 1944 Realizing that hiding was not sufficient to save the Jews, the](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZ3pzsMXEAAA1CE.jpg)
Yad Vashem on Twitter: "Righteous Among the Nations Joop Westerweel was executed in the Vught concentration camp #OTD 11 August 1944 Realizing that hiding was not sufficient to save the Jews, the
Detail of the Rescuers' Wall featuring the Dutch rescuer, Joop Westerweel, on the second floor of the permanent exhibition at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
![IDEA - ALM : Willie Westerweel - Bosdriesz, the widow of "Joop" Westerweel, photographed with Gideon Hausner IDEA - ALM : Willie Westerweel - Bosdriesz, the widow of "Joop" Westerweel, photographed with Gideon Hausner](https://www.infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/53477.jpg)
IDEA - ALM : Willie Westerweel - Bosdriesz, the widow of "Joop" Westerweel, photographed with Gideon Hausner
![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)