Date of birth:

February 10th, 1906 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

February 12th, 1945 (Haarlem, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 35. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Wally van Hall was a partner in a banking and securities firm in Zaandam.
From the autumn of 1941, Van Hall provided the financial resources for the Sailors' Fund and the Trompfonds. These funds provided support to 6,100 families of merchant navy and naval personnel who sailed for the Allies.
In 1943, he decided that people in hiding and their families, as well as the large resistance organisations, should also receive financial support. Together with his brother Gijs, he managed to ‘raise’ approximately 9 million guilders by taking out large loans from wealthy individuals and institutions. Private donations, tax evasion and a treasury promissory note operation provided further financing of more than 60 million guilders.
A national organisation with 1,900 employees was set up to disburse the funds: the National Support Fund (NSF). This support fund was known as the resistance's banker. In the summer of 1944, support was provided to approximately 10,000 families and 8,000 Jewish people in hiding. Later, support was also provided to the railway strikers.
As the leader of the NSF, but also due to his natural authority, Van Hall became one of the central figures in the Dutch resistance. In 1944 he was intensively involved in the founding of two umbrella organisations of the resistance: the Core and the Top-Triangle.
On 27 January 1945, Van Hall was arrested at a meeting of the National Work Committee for Illegality along with four other top members. The arrest was the result of a betrayal by the 26-year-old married man Van Lom. He was involved in the resistance and attempted to use betrayal to free his arrested extramarital girlfriend, which he succeeded in doing. Van Lom was later liquidated by the resistance.
On 12 February 1945, Van Hall was executed along with seven others in Haarlem as reprisal for the shooting of a German non-commissioned officer and a soldier in Haarlem. They were buried in a mass grave in the dunes on the orders of the occupying forces.
Van Hall was posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross 1940-1945, the highest bravery award in the Netherlands after the Military Order of William, and the American Medal of Freedom with Gold Palm.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Jeroen Koppes
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