Information Panel Resistance Fighter Walraven van Hall

INFORMATION PANEL RESISTANCE FIGHTER
For:
Walraven van Hall

During the Second World War, Walraven van Hall managed an underground bank: the National Support Fund (NSF). This secret bank initially funded benefits to families of sailors sailing for the Allies, but in the course of 1943 the NSF became a banker of the resistance.
Together with his brother Gijs, the later mayor of Amsterdam, and with the help of hundreds of employees, Walraven van Hall managed to collect more than 83 million guilders and to get 51 million guilders out of the safe at De Nederlandsche Bank through a smart exchange trick with real and counterfeit treasuries that financed countless resistance activities. With the help of about two thousand employees, the money was distributed across the country. The money was used for illegal newspapers, the identity card center, armed and unarmed resistance, help for people in hiding, support for thousands of families who had run into financial difficulties and the financing of families of 30,000 railway strikers.
Walraven van Hall was arrested on January 27, 1945. On February 12, 1945 he was executed in Haarlem.


The information panels in the Resistance Fighters District in Gouda are memories of important Resistance Fighters who helped many Dutch people during World War II.
To these Resistance Fighters, 16 streets are named to in Gouda.
On 10 april 2014, they finally got a face. Memory boards with photographs and information about these Resistance Fighters were revealed.
These are the streets:

Walraven van Halllaan
Van Roijenstraat
Rutgersstraat
Johannes Poststraat
Helena Rietbergstraat
Dobbestraat
Dercksenstraat
Brandsmastraat
Boelhouwerstraat
Bleysstraat
Willem Idenburgpad
Nieuwenhuisenpad
De Rijkestraat
Teldersstraat
Wiarda Beckmanhof
De Kortestraat.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Arie van Wijngaarden