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
During the last days of the war, Jospeh Jacques van Weezel was deported from Dachau. On 23 April 1945 he was part of a transport that left the camp with unknown destination.
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