The Resistance Banker — Netherlands
Dutch banker Walraven van Hall secretly diverts millions of guilders from the Dutch National Railways to fund the Resistance — financing strikes, hiding Jews and supporting sabotage networks.
Walraven van Hall diverted 87 million guilders from the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and Dutch National Railways to fund Resistance operations. He financed the February Strike of 1941, the first mass strike against the deportation of Jews in occupied Europe. He helped hundreds of Jews into hiding and funded armed resistance. Arrested and shot by the Gestapo on 12 March 1945, 52 days before liberation.