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Joseph Jacques van Weezel

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19 Dec 1909 - 23 Apr 1945

  • BIRTH: 19 Dec 1909, Amsterdam
  • DEATH: 23 Apr 1945, Dachau
Father: Mozes van Weezel
Mother: Jette de Boers 

                                             _Moses Levie van Weezel _+
                                            | (1816 - ....) m 1840    
                       _Juda van Weezel ____|
                      | (1852 - ....) m 1875|
                      |                     |_Cato Salomon Davidson __
                      |                       (1820 - ....) m 1840    
 _Mozes van Weezel ___|
| (1877 - 1943) m 1907|
|                     |                      _Sodik Cohen ____________+
|                     |                     | (1819 - 1892) m 1850    
|                     |_Grietje Cohen ______|
|                       (1853 - 1884) m 1875|
|                                           |_Martha Brandes _________+
|                                             (1816 - 1875) m 1850    
|
|--Joseph Jacques van Weezel 
|  (1909 - 1945)
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|_Jette de Boers _____|
  (1880 - 1943) m 1907|
                      |                      _________________________
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[7773]
Joseph Jacques van Weezel (nicknamed Joop) was unmarried.He came from a social-democratic family. His father had been active in the General Dutch Diamondworkers Union (ANDB) and in the workers cooperation De Dageraad.

Joseph Jacques van Weezel was a chemist. He worked as an editor and scientific staff member of the Communist newspaper De Tribune, later Het Volksdagblad. He did illegal work for the Dutch Communist Party (CPN). On 6 March 1941, he was arrested in Amsterdam. Via the prison at the Weteringschans in Amsterdam and the prison in Scheveningen (the so-called Oranjehotel) he was deported to Dachau.
NIOD, Erelijst Verzet en Koopvaardij, database made by J.W. de Leeuw;
B. Braber, Zelfs als wij zullen verliezen. Joden in verzet en illegaliteit in Nederland 1940-1945 (Amsterdam, 1990) 69-70