MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST
No family was left
untouched by the devastating effects of the Holocaust.
This page pays a solemn tribute to those of the Goldberg Group who
lost their lives in the most infamous genocide of all time. Their
approximate ages, places and years of death are given after their names. May
their dear souls rest in peace.
1. Awigdor Jakob Gornecki (55,
Auschwitz, 1942)
Born in Ozorkow in 1887, was
politically outspoken and had to flee Poland as a result. Having
escaped to Lille, France, and fathered a family, was arrested in
September 1942. Deported to Auschwitz from the Malines camp in Belgium
with his wife and two youngest children on 15 September, on
Convoi 84. |
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2. Bernard Gornecki (13,
Auschwitz, 1942)
Born in Lille, France, in 1928, he
was arrested with his parents and sister in
September 1942. Deported to Auschwitz from the Malines camp in
Belgium with them on
15 September on Convoi 84. |
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3. Elka Gornecki (née
Lipman; 55, Auschwitz, 1942)
Born in Lodz in 1887, she married
but had to flee to her sister in Leeds c.1919 with her young
son, Moshe, when her husband's political activism placed the
family in danger. She later rejoined her husband in Lille,
France, where the couple had more children. Deported to
Auschwitz from the Malines camp in Belgium with her husband and two
youngest children on 15 September 1942 on Convoi 84. |
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4. Sarah Gornecki (16,
Auschwitz, 1942)
Born in Lille, France, in 1925, she
was arrested with her parents and brother
in September 1942. Deported to Auschwitz from Malines with them
on 15 September on Convoi 84. |
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5. Fajga Perl Komorowska (née
Przedborska; 63,
Lodz Ghetto, 1942)
Born in 1878, Fajga Perl had married
Efraim Fiszel Komorowski in Lodz in 1899. Her name and that of
her son are listed amongst the inhabitants of the Lodz Ghetto,
where she died on 9 February 1942, from malnutrition. |
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6. Moszek Aron Komorowski (33, Chelmno, 1944)
Born in 1910, Moszek Aron and his
mother are listed amongst the inhabitants of the Lodz Ghetto.
His listing includes his profession (a tailor) and that he was
brought to the ghetto from the outlying town of Ozorkow. He
appears to have been deported from the ghetto to the Chelmno
extermination camp on 3 July 1944. |
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7. Mordka Najman (41, Auschwitz, 1942)
Born in Brzeziny,
Poland, in
1901, he lived in Paris with his wife and two children. He was arrested
in one of the first raids on foreign Jews in the city, on 14 May 1941,
and interned in the Pithiviers camp. He was deported from there
to Auschwitz on 17 July 1942, on
Convoi 6. His
brother was also arrested and vowed to Mordka that, should he
survive and Mordka did not, he would take care of Mordka's
children. Mordka died in Auschwitz on 19 August 1942; his
brother's vow was later redeemed. |
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8. Sara Najman (née
Parzenczewska; 33, Auschwitz, 1942)
Born in Lodz in
1909 and moved to Paris in 1920. Married with two children, and
her husband already arrested and deported to Auschwitz,
she suffered the same fate on 2 September 1942, arrested in Paris,
along with her father, in front of her 11-year-old son.
Deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 14 September, on Convoi 32, and died
there on 19 September. |
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9. Szlama
Parzenczewski (58, Auschwitz, 1942)
Born in Lodz in
1884 and moved to Paris via Brussels in 1919. Father of a large
family of girls, he had tried to gain entry to England in the
1920s, without success. Alerted to his daughter's arrest on
2 September 1942 by his grandson, he was arrested without even
being allowed to bring a jacket. Having spent two days at the Drancy detention camp, he was moved to Pithiviers, from where he
was deported to Auschwitz on 21 September, on Convoi 35, and died there on 25 September. |
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Sources: (1)
Victor Gornecki; (2) Serge Rycine; (3) Klarsfeld,
S (1978), “Le Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France”, Beate
Klarsfeld Foundation, Paris. No ISBN; (4)
http://www.mortsdanslecamps.com. |
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