Donald Bamberg

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Donald Earl Bamberg (born January 30, 1920 in New York , † January 31, 2013 in The Hague ) was a Dutch-American resistance fighter in World War II . He was a son of the magician Theo Bamberg , who was known by the stage name Okito .

Life

Don Bamberg moved from New York to Vienna with his famous father at the age of four . After Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich, the family moved to the Netherlands, which was still peaceful at the time. When his father emigrated with his wife to Mexico in 1939 because of the unsafe situation in Europe , Don stayed in The Hague and joined the Dutch army , where he rose to the rank of non-commissioned officer .

When the German army occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, Don Bamberg was recruited for active resistance . His job was to scout out German positions so that they could be reported to the Allied forces. He was arrested on August 19, 1941 and sentenced to death in October 1941 for espionage . The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after thirteen months on death row. In November 1942, Don Bamberg began an odyssey through the Amersfoort , Buchenwald , Natzweiler , Sennheim , Dachau , Neuengamme , Engerhafe , Groß-Rosen , Dora-Mittelbau , Ravensbrück and Malchow concentration camps . After his return from captivity, Bamberg first worked for a Dutch newspaper, then in the back office of an insurance company, where he became head of the international department. Don married in 1946 and fathered a son, Theo, who was named after his famous grandfather.

About his time in captivity, Don Bamberg published his book Dossier NN in the Netherlands in 1986 , which was revised again in 2010. This book was translated into German in 2015 and published under the title Dossier NN - Night and Fog . Since 2017 there is also an English edition under the title Don Bamberg - I survived death row and nine concentration camps

In 2012, Don Bamberg was made an honorary member of the Engerhafe Concentration Camp Memorial Association. He died in January 2013 in a hospital in The Hague.

Works

  • Dossier NN: Night and Fog . Van Holkema & Warendorf: 1985. ISBN 978-90-269-6508-1
  • Dossier NN - Night and Fog: Vanished without a trace in Hitler's Third Reich . Amazon Kindle Edition.
  • Dossier NN - I survived death row and nine concentration camps . Amazon Kindle Edition and Paperback.
  • Don Bamberg - I survived death row and nine concentration camps . Amazon Kindle Edition and Paperback.
  • Don Bamberg - Ik overleefde de dodencel en negen concentratiekampen . Amazon Kindle Edition en paperback.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Don Bamberg , Trouw, edition of May 9, 2009, accessed on July 5, 2015 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Engerhafe Concentration Camp Memorial
personal data
SURNAME Bamberg, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamberg, Donald Earl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-American resistance fighter in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2013
Place of death The hague