The Resistance Banker

This film tells the true story of Walraven van Hall and his brother, Gijsbert who came from a wealthy Dutch banking family. During the Nazi occupation, the van Hall brothers supplied the Dutch resistance with around five-hundred million dollars in order for the resisters to maintain their work. The brothers also stole money from the Germans as well as the Dutch bank, aided 8,000 Jews in hiding via supplies, food and money and led fallen Allied pilots to safety. The film focuses on one particular action by the brothers which was robbing the Dutch Bank making it the largest bank robbery in European history. Walraven was eventually found and shot by the Nazis toward the very end of the war and Gijsbert lived to become mayor of Amsterdam. Walraven van Hall was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1978 by Yad Vashem.