Albert Van den Berg (resistant)

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]