Albert Van den Berg (resistant) explained

Max-Albert Van den Berg, also called Albert Van den Berg, (Liège, 10 May 1890 – April 1945[1]), was a doctor of law, licensed as a notary and lawyer at the Court of Appeal, and active in Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. 

Life

Max-Albert Van den Berg is best known for helping some 400 Jewish children escape German occupation forces, together with his brother-in-law Georges Fonsny[2] and sister Germaine.[3] Within their Berg-Fonsny network in this activity, Berg visited and comforted the children too.[2]  In 1995, he received the title of Righteous Among the Nations from the Yad Vashem Institute.[4] The Fonsnys received the title in 1996.[3] Van den Berg was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, placed at the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.[5] [6] [7] He survived until the end of the war, but died from exhaustion on German soil before managing to reach Belgium.[8]

Van den Berg was also a Service Clarence member.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Happe, Katja . Western and Northern Europe June 1942–1945 . Lambauer . Barbara . Maier-Wolthausen . Clemens . 2022-08-01 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG . 978-3-11-068787-3 . 1910 . en.
  2. Book: Hayes, Peter . How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader . 2015. U of Nebraska Press . 712 . 978-0-8032-7491-4 . en.
  3. https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/pdf-drupal/belgium.pdf Belgium
  4. Web site: Berg van den Albert . 2023-02-24 . The Righteous Among The Nations.
  5. Book: Steinberg, Maxime . Un pays occupé et ses juifs: Belgique entre France et Pays-Bas . 1998 . Quorum . 978-2-87399-014-5 . fr. online
  6. https://auschwitz.be/images/train_1000/expo_valises-miroirs/Albert%20Van%20Den%20Berg%20livret.pdf Biographie d' Albert Van Den Berg
  7. Web site: Portrait of Belgian rescuer Albert van den Berg, who died in the Neungamme concentration camp in 1945. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . 2023-02-24 . collections.ushmm.org.
  8. Book: Gutman, Israel . The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. Belgium . Mikhman . Dan . Bender . Sara . 2005 . Yad Vashem . 253 . en.
  9. Web site: Personnes mentionnées sur les monuments - Op de monumenten genoemde mensen . 2023-02-24 . bel-memorial.org . fr.

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