Donald E. Bamberg

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

At the age of four, Bamberg moved with his family from New York to Vienna. After the "Anschluss" of Austria to national-socialist Germany, the family moved to the Netherlands which was still at peace at this time. Although his father emigrated to Mexico in 1939, due to the uncertain political situation in Europe, Bamberg remained in The Hague and joined the Dutch army.

In May 1940, when the German army succeeded in occupying the Netherlands, Bamberg was approached by the active resistance movement. On 19 August, he was betrayed and arrested and in October 1941 he was sentenced to death for spying.

After thirteen months on death row, this sentence was changed to life. In November 1942, an odyssey began for Bamberg through the concentration camps of Amersfoort, Buchenwald, Natzweiler, Sennheim, Dachau, Neuengamme, Engerhafe, Gross-Rosen, Mittelbau-Dora, Ravensbrück and Malchow.

In 1985, Bamberg wrote his Dutch book "Dossier NN" about his experiences during the war. In 2015 the book was translated into German and 2017 into English.