Louis van Adelberg came from a large Jewish family. Only his wife and children survived the war. A third child, a daughter, died before the war. His ancestors were mainly peddlars and merchants. Until the war most of his family members lived in and near Heusden. With his wife he ran a flourishing textile company on the Markt in Waalwijk. During the war he had to hand over all of his possessions to the nazis. Presumably, among other reasons, because one suspected that he was hiding more valuables, he was arrested, interrogated and abused time and again.
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Louis van Adelberg was married to a non-Jewish woman and he had two children. His textile company at the Markt was closed on 1 November 1941.
See for more information: Jack Didden, De laatste Joden in Waalwijk, in: M. van Loon e.a. (red.), Geschiedenis van de joden in Waalwijk 1690-1945 (Waalwijk, 1990) 80-109
According to tradition Louis van Adelberg was a very sweet, caring man. After his death he was buried on a Roman Catholic cemetery on non-consecrated earth. Circa 1998 he was reburied on the Jewish cemetery in Amersfoort.
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