In 1939 Maurits van Berg adviced his daughter to leave the Netherlands. She took his advice, emigrated and survived the war.
Untill his arrest in 1942, Maurits van Berg kept a diary. In it he wrote about the persecution of the Jews in The Netherlands, how it isolated and cornered them. Often, Maurits van Berg thanks the non-Jewish Dutchmen for their moral support. The last entries show a great de…