Max-Albert Van den Berg, also called Albert Van den Berg, (

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, 10 May 1890 – April 1945), was a doctor of law, licensed as a notary and lawyer at the

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, and active in Belgian Resistance during the Second World War.

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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.Belgium
(PDF). '' Yad Vashem. 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 ''Service Clarence'' (1939/40 -1945) (or the ''Clarence network''; in French: ''Le Réseau Clarence)'' was one of the most successful MI6 networks in Belgium during the Second World War. Name and leadership It was led by Hector Demarque (190 ...

member.

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1890 births 1945 deaths Belgian Righteous Among the Nations Belgian people who died in the Holocaust {{Belgium-bio-stub

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