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GOLDBERG GROUP HOMEPAGE
DEDICATION
This section of Shmuelbennachum.com, covering the Goldberg group families, is dedicated to the late Manis Goldberg (1911-2002), by his daughter:
"Manis Goldberg strove
for nearly 50 years to find the first cousins who re-emigrated from
London to the USA during his childhood, and who initially kept in touch
with their British relatives. But when
the four daughters of Israel's brother in New York all married and
no-one had a record of their new surnames or addresses, the trail was
lost. After the war, Manis advertised in Jewish newspapers in America,
to no avail, and Belle also made enquiries when a cruise brought her to
Florida in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Ironically, it was to
that state the American family decamped after leaving New York. The advent of the internet prompted Saul, and Manis' daughter Anthea, to reactivate the search and, with the help of Anthea's friend Helen Auerbach, Manis' one surviving first cousin was tracked down to her Florida home. This launched a renaissance of contact, not only with some of the Goldbergs in London, but also cousins in Paris of whose existence the younger New York Goldbergs had apparently been unaware. As Scheindl's daughter Marie had been living for several years in the USA, that in itself was ironic, but the chain was finally mended and three branches of the Goldberg family were at least nominally reunited.
Tragically, the reunification, which would have thrilled Manis so much, despite his deafness, occurred just eight months after his death. Undoubtedly, he would have been in touch with his surviving cousin on the phone immediately."
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