Joop Westerweel died in 1944.
Joop Westerweel was born in 1889.
Joop Westerweel along with Joachim Simon and others helped save between 200 and 300 Jewish lives by organizing escape routes and smuggling Jews through Belgium, France and on into neutral Switzerland and Spain.
Joop Westerweel was a Dutch schoolteacher who, during WWII, guided many Jews into France to escape death at the hands of the Nazi Germans that had invaded Holland. He was eventually caught and shot to death by the Nazis. Today there is a grove of trees in Dalia, Israel planted in his name by the survivors that he saved.
Joop Beek died in 1983.
Joop Boutmy died in 1972.
Joop Rohner died in 2005.
Joop Bakker died in 2003.
Joop van Woerkom died in 1998.
Joop Pelser died on 1974-07-27.
Joop Wille died on 2009-01-19.
Joop van Nellen died on 1992-11-14.
Joop Huisken died on April 1, 1979, in Berlin, Germany.