Westerweel Group: Non-Conformist Resistance Against Nazi Germany

Westerweel Group: Non-Conformist Resistance Against Nazi Germany
Author: Hans Schippers
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110582708

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.

Elizabethan Non-Conformist Texts

Elizabethan Non-Conformist Texts
Author: Leland H. Carlson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2013-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136522964

Originally published in the 1950s by George Allen & Unwin. When originally published, these volumes were making available very rare material (tracts and manuscripts etc.) for the very first time. Most of the documents exist in their original state as difficult to locate, read and understand - for example: there are only two copies of A Plaine Refutation (1591) and two copies of A Brief Discoverie of the False Church. It is impossible to understand the rise and development of Independency and of the democratic idea in religion and in politics without reflection upon some of this rare material.

Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part I Vol 3

Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part I Vol 3
Author: Timothy Whelan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040251358

These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.

Protestant Nonconformist Texts: The eighteenth century

Protestant Nonconformist Texts: The eighteenth century
Author: Alan P. F. Sell
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780754638537

This book is one of four substantial volumes designed to demonstrate the range of interests of the several Protestant Nonconformist traditions from the time of their Separatist harbingers to the end of the twentieth century. In this volume we are concerned with the eighteenth century. It was a period in which Old Dissent - the Congregationalists, Baptists, Presbyterians and Quakers - had to face challenges from Enlightenment thought on the one hand and Evangelical Revival enthusiasm on the other. Largely in their own words, though with introductions contributed by the editors, we enter into the philosophical world of Isaac Watts, Richard Price, and others; we overhear doctrinal disputes over the doctrine of the Trinity; we meet such new arrivals on the religious scene as the Moravians, Sandemanians, Swedenborgians and Methodists (Calvinistic and Arminian). We consider the Nonconformists' views on the Church, the ministry and the sacraments; on Church, state and society; and on Christian nurture, piety and church life. From philosophical tomes to hymns, from sacramental questions to prison reform, from the most strait-laced Presbyterian to the most enthusiastic Jumper: this volume will remind scholars of, and aquaint others with, the intellectual excitements, the practical witness and the worship of the eighteenth-century Nonconformists.