Albert Van den Berg

Max-Albert Van den Berg,[1] also called Albert Van den Berg, (Liège, 10 May 1890 – April 1945[2]), 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[3] and sister Germaine.[4] Within their Berg-Fonsny network in this activity, Berg visited and comforted the children too.[3] In 1995, he received the title of Righteous Among the Nations from the Yad Vashem Institute.[5] The Fonsnys received the title in 1996.[4] Van den Berg was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, placed at the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.[6][7][1] 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]

See also

References

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