Testimony of Arie Goldberg, born in Chelm, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Chelm Ghetto, Rejowiec Ghetto, Majdanek, Birkenau, Buchenwald and a death march
Testimony of Arie Goldberg, born in Chelm, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Chelm Ghetto, Rejowiec Ghetto, Majdanek, Birkenau, Buchenwald and a death march
Testimony of Arie Goldberg, born in Chelm, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Chelm Ghetto, Rejowiec Ghetto, Majdanek, Birkenau, Buchenwald and a death march
His father has rabbinical ordination; father's work as a fruit merchant; his mother works as a merchant; witness attends a public school.
Establishment of an open ghetto, 1940; labor in SS stables; witness to the murder of Soviet POWs by gas; escape to the Rejowiec Ghetto where his mother lives, summer 1942; labor in a sugar factory; deportation to Majdanek, March 1943; transfer to Auschwitz, two months later; labor building barracks in an area where the crematorium was built; partner to the secret regarding the Birkenau uprising; transfer to Stutthof, late 1944; transfer to Germany, five weeks later; labor in stone quarries and then in an oil shale mine; transfer to Buchenwald, January 1945; death march, 18 April 1945; liberation, 22 April 1945.
LOADING MORE ITEMS....
Details
Map
Hierarchical Tree
item Id
3740462
First Name
Arie
Last Name
Goldberg
Date of Birth
1926
Place of Birth
Chelm, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
8585
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives