Albert Van den Berg (resistant)

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. 

Albert Van den Berg

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

• Belgium portal