Born: Moishe Goldberg
Radom, Poland
October 10, 1922
Died: November 22, 1996
Morry Goldberg was born on October 10, 1922 to a traditional Jewish family in the industrial city of Radom, Poland. Goldberg’s mother stayed at home while his father worked at the family’s leather factory. Goldberg was one month shy of his 17th birthday when Nazi forces marched into Radom in September 1939. As Jews were forced into ghettos, Goldberg and his family fled by horse-drawn carriage to the town of Szydłowiec where his grandparents lived.
In 1942, the Nazis rounded up Jews in Szydłowiec to work in an ammunition factory. Goldberg escaped in the night and for a time managed to hide his Jewish identity as he worked as a laborer.
However, all Jews were once again marched back to Szydłowiec. Desperate for food and money, Goldberg volunteered for a work camp. The remaining Jews of the town, including Goldberg’s brother Shaya, were sent to Treblinka in January 1943. Soon after arriving at the work camp Goldberg jumped on a truck loaded with bricks and escaped back to Radom.
In July 1944 Goldberg was marched from Radom to Tomaszów, where he was loaded onto a cattle train headed for Auschwitz. Goldberg escaped the gas chambers by being selected for slave labor in an airplane factory. In March 1945 Goldberg was moved again, this time to Dachau. American forces liberated the camp the next month.
Goldberg recovered in a hospital in Germany before emigrating to the United States in 1949. He later went to Germany to visit his two surviving uncles, then went to Israel where he met and married his wife. Goldberg eventually returned to United States and, at the urging of his close friend and fellow Survivor Josef Mincberg, moved to Houston in 1955.
Parents:
Meir Goldberg, d. in Holocaust
Golda Baumsetzer, d. in Holocaust
Siblings:
Shaya Goldberg, d. in Holocaust
Chella Goldberg , d. in Holocaust