Manfred Goldberg
was 13 when he was forced to labor in a Nazi camp, together with his mother, Rosa, and younger brother Hermann…
on experiences
to adults...
in the camps...
we tended
to grow up
pretty fast.
had to go out and do sort
of a day's
slave
labor.
who was four years
younger...
to stay in the camp.
young kids had been
picked up by some
SS members...
to have vanished from
the face of the earth.
to this day, we do not know his fate.
Young children were among the most vulnerable during the Holocaust, alongside the elderly and sick. The Nazis killed an estimated 1.5 million Jewish children, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They also killed tens of thousands of other “unwanted” minors, including Romani, Polish and mentally or physically disabled German children.
To this day, Manfred does not know what happened to his brother. He now lives in England, but returned to Germany in 2018 to lay a memorial stone for Hermann near where their family lived before the war.
Manfred Goldberg shares more memories in the documentary The Last Survivors, which is available to stream for free online.
