Arnold van den Berg, who was born in Pretoria South Africa as the eldest son of Salomon van den Berg and Mietje Park, lived in Rotterdam in the Bentheimstraat 4. He was a hawker or canvasser by profession and sold all kind of things in the street. On 8 April 1943 he was arrested and carried off to Westerbork, where he ended up in the penal barrack 66. Possibly Arnold had been going into hiding and betrayed, or accused from some “criminal offence”, that is not known but Arnold van den Berg has been locked up on arrival in Westerbork as a “penal case” in the penal barrack 66. Five days later, on 13 April he was deported to Sobibor.
Where many transports from Westerbork to Sobibor also included deportees who were placed on so-called “Penal Transport” ( which in pactice was no different from a “normal” transport), the transport of 13 april 1943 was a “Normal Transport” with 1204 deportees.
On arrival in Sobibor on 16 April 1943, all deportees of this transport were immediately killed in the gas chambers there, among them also Arnold van den Berg. There were no survivors.
Sources among others: the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Salomon van den Berg and Arnold van den Berg; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Arnold van den Berg, the transport list of 13 April 1943 published in the book “Extermination camp Sobibor” by Jules Schelvis and the Wikipedia list of jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.