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Belgian resistant who saved Jews in WWII
Albert Van den Berg
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Max-Albert Van den Berg, also called Albert Van den Berg, (Liège, 10 May 1890 – April 1945), 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 and sister Germaine. Within their Berg-Fonsny network in this activity, Berg visited and comforted the children too. In 1995, he received the title of Righteous Among the Nations from the Yad Vashem Institute. The Fonsnys received the title in 1996. Van den Berg was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, placed at the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. He survived until the end of the war, but died from exhaustion on German soil before managing to reach Belgium.

Van den Berg was also a Service Clarence member.

See also

References

  1. ^ "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. ^ Hayes, Peter (2015). How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader. U of Nebraska Press. p. 712. ISBN 978-0-8032-7491-4.
  4. ^ 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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