Date of birth:

September 29th, 1920 (Amersfoort/Utrecht, Netherlands)

Date of death:

July 29th, 1944 (Vught/North Brabant, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Ash Pits Wells Camp Vught

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Groningen, Stationsstraat 3. Son of doctor Frans van den Bergh (born in Leiden - died on December 20, 1942 at the age of 56 in Groningen) and Willemina Catharina Anna Brouwer (August 2, 1890 Makkum - August 23, 1933 Groningen). Unmarried. Mate's apprentice/medical student. Before the war, Roelof was a member of the student society Societas Studiosorum Reformatorum. Resistance participant. According to the Camp Vught website, he committed several robberies with Reint Dijkema (May 20, 1920 Smilde - August 22, 1944 Vught) in Groningen during the war. His map in the Groningen resistance archives states that he took people to the south of the country. He had contact with the Belgian resistance organization White Brigade. After leaving for Rotterdam he became active in the resistance in the southern Netherlands. He helped in an attempt by the KP-Peter in Schiedam to obtain weapons. However, the group was infiltrated by V-Mann Adriaan Breed. Under the direction of Joseph Schreieder, one of the leaders of the Englandspiel, a fictitious weapons drop was set up near Helvoirt. In mid-June 1944, the resistance members who were to collect and remove the weapons were suddenly confronted with about thirty Germans. Willem Kempers (27 November 1920 The Hague) was killed in a firefight and Van den Bergh was seriously injured. On July 29, 1944, the participants in the 'fake drop' were executed in Camp Vught.
Van den Bergh was cremated in the Vught concentration camp.

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• Photo 1: IN MEMORIAM, De Oud-Kwekelingen van de Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart te Amsterdam 1939-1945, Derde herziene uitgave 2020
• - OGS Gedenkboek 36 - Amersfoort, Vught, Westerbork, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
  - POLDERMAN, K. & RUITER, H. DE, IN MEMORIAM, VOK, Amsterdam, 2020.
  - Site Kamp Vught
  - OVCG;
  - overlijdensakte 1153/1947 gemeente Groningen
  - Roelof Kars van den Bergh | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

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