Memorial Albert Van den Berg

Albert Van den Berg was active in Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. Together with his brother-in-law Georges Fonsny and sister Germaine they helped some 400 Jewish children escape German occupation forces. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, placed at the Concentration Camp Neuengamme near Hamburg. He survived until the end of the war, but died from exhaustion on German soil before he reached Belgium.

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• Text: Joost Verheijden
• Photos: Joost Verheijden