Bamberger Alois, born 11-06-1912, in village of Peterswörth Germany 
and lived in Gundelfingen. 
Bamberger was a non-commissioned officer, Oberfeldwebel, 
in the medical service of the Wehrmacht in occupied Holland. The Army Medical Service employs military physicians, nurses, combat medics and other groups, and is traditionally responsible for providing medical humanitarian relief in armed conflicts, including caring for sick or wounded soldiers on the battlefield and operating first aid stations and field hospitals near the frontline, as well as organising transports of patients. Other responsibilities include occupational health services, medical disaster relief and international humanitarian missions in non-combat situations. Members of the Medical Service are often informally and affectionately referred to as “Sanis” in German.
Death and burial ground of Bamberger, Alois.
On Saturday evening on 30-01-1943 Alois Bamberger, cycling on the Versponckweg in Alkmaar, 
was fatally shot in the back. The casing of a 9 mm pistol bullet was found about ten meters away. For a long time it remained unclear who carried out the attack on the German Oberfeldwebel. The German occupiers knew in advance that the attack was the work of Jewish-communist circles. It remained unclear for a long time who had committed the attack on the German.
However, research into the Velser Affair shows that Frans van der Wiel, the commander of the Haarlemsection of the Council of Resistance, claimed responsiblity for the attack after the war..The Velser Affair is an alleged plot during World War II involving members of the Velsen police force and members of the Dutch resistance. A leading role is played by Nico Johannes Gerardus Sikkel, 
who was a deputy public prosecutor in Haarlem during the war and a public prosecutor at the Special Court of Justice in Amsterdam after the war.
As a German retaliation measure, a total of 109 inhabitants of Haarlem were arrested on 01-02-1943, of whom 102 were taken as hostages to Kamp Vught 
and .on 02-02-1943 three Jews and seven communists were executed in the dunes near the Kopje van Bloemendaal. 
In the early morning of 22-01-1943, 10 men were arrested in Velsen. From the police file of 04-02-1943 signed by acting police commissioner in Velsen, H. Tuinstra, the 10 were arrested for communist activities at the request of Sicherheits Polizei 
and transferred to Amsterdam.
Among them was Barend Chapon, 
the chair man of the Jewish Council in Haarlem, and the Haarlem Chief Rabbi Philip Frank 
and Herbert Otto Drilsma, 
lawyer and councillor for the SDAP in Heemstede. The other executed were all communists. The seven communist victims were:Johannes Theodorus Lebbe, 
Karel Frederik Reumann, 
Wijnand de la Rie, 
Roelof Strengholt, 
Simon Nicolas Warmenhoven, 
Pieter Weij 
and Iwan Zwanenbeek. 
The remains of the executed were cremated that same day in the crematorium Driehuis-Westerveld. 
The urns were then thrown into the sea. The relatives of Drilsma, Frank and Chapon were arrested the next day and taken away via Westerbork to Auschwitz. The three Jewish families from Haarlem were also murdered there on 12-02-1943..
In the hall of the Haarlem city hall, a nameplate (designed by Han Bijvoet) commemorates the ten people who were shot on0 -02-1943. In the dunes, at the site of the executions, there are two memorial stones and an information board.
Alois Bamberger was awarded with the War Merit Cross with swords, 4 years Service Medal and the Eastern Front Medal and is buried at the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof / German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn, Ysselsteyn, Venray Municipality, Limburg, Section CT-11-266.
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