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.

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.

[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.