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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 'Okito'. Life 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, where he became a non-commissioned officer in the elite group of Greandiers. In May 1940, when the German army succeeded in occupying the Netherlands, Bamberg was approached by the active resistance movement. His task was to make drawings of German military facilities, so they could be passed on to the allied defence forces. 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 May 1945, after returning from imprisonment, Bamberg first worked for 'De Volkskrant' daily newspaper in The Hague, then in an insurance office, where he became chief clerk and manager of the foreign department. In 1946, Don married and in 1947 had a son whom he named after his father Theo. In 1985, Bamberg wrote his Dutch book 'Dossier NN' about his experiences during the war, which was republished in 2010, with the special intent of illustrating the fate of the population of the small Dutch town Putten after reprisals by the German occupation in October 1944. In 2015 Bamberg's fist book was translated into German, 2017 into English. In 2012, Bamberg was offered honorary membership of the German association 'Gedenkstätte KZ Engerhafe' in remembrance of the victims of Engerhafe concentration camp. Bamberg was the last survivor of the concentration camp Aurich-Engerhafe. On 31 January 2013, Donald Bamberg died in a hospital in The Hague from tuberculosis.

Dossier NN: Nacht und Nebel, Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1985 ISBN 978-90-269-6808-1 Dossier NN: Spoorloos in Hitlers Derde Rijk, Accent, 2010 ISBN 978-94-91088-01-8 Dossier NN: Ich überlebte die Todeszelle und neun Konzentrationslager, amazon Kindle edition and Paperback ISBN 978-94-021-4298-3 Don Bamberg: I survived death row and nine concentration camps, amazon kindle edition and Paperback, 2017 ISBN 978-15-432-0057-7