HGIS Lublin is a website containing information about the history of the Lublin city and the region, which enables searching for information about people, events, places and sources. This information is presented on interactive maps, using historical cartographic sources.

We dedicate the service to our late colleague Tadeusz Przystojecki.

HGIS Lublin is a website containing information about the history of the Lublin city and the region, which enables searching for information about people, events, places and sources. This information is presented on interactive maps, using historical cartographic sources.

We dedicate the service to our late colleague Tadeusz Przystojecki.

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GOLDBERG

The name of the family was Goldberg. I saw many pictures of my grandparents and they looked like everybody else in the street. You wouldn’t find any difference. They were not a religious family, they didn’t go to synagogue every Shabbat, but they celebrated all of the Jewish holidays like Yom Kippur, Rosh HaShanah, Pesach.

Ewa Goldberg z rodziną
Ewa Goldberg z rodziną (Author: nieznany)

The name of the family was Goldberg. I saw many pictures of my grandparents and they looked like everybody else in the street. You wouldn’t find any difference. They were not a religious family, they didn’t go to synagogue every Shabbat, but they celebrated all of the Jewish holidays like Yom Kippur, Rosh HaShanah, Pesach.

Every year they used to go for beautiful holidays in the mountains, to Zakopane. The last time they went there was a few days before the beginning of war.


The next day after the Nazis invaded Lublin, my grandparents had to leave their house, because Jewish people were banned from 3 Maja Street. They moved to the house of my mother's grandparents Blumensztok at 2 Pijarska Street and they lived there for a while. Later, staying there was also forbidden and they moved to the first Ghetto – the quarter where Jewish people could live. They lived there together with grandparents, in the same house. My grandfather was working in the Judenrat. Then they had to move to the Majdan Tatarski ghetto. My mother's grandparents didn't get the J-Ausweis cards and could not go with the family because they were too old. They were hiding in a little village the Germans hadn’t arrived to yet. They had to move from place to place until they were found and murdered. My grandmother Hela (Judyta) Goldberg was murdered in Lublin at the train station when she was trying to run away to Warsaw with her sister-in-law Ida Goldberg. It was one day after the ghetto in Majdan Tatarski was liquidated. Somebody identified them. They were shot on the spot. My grandfather was on a train to Bergen-Belsen Szyja-Hersz Goldberg, but I'm not sure whether he actually arrived there – he is not on the lists of arrivals.

Every year they used to go for beautiful holidays in the mountains, to Zakopane. The last time they went there was a few days before the beginning of war.


The next day after the Nazis invaded Lublin, my grandparents had to leave their house, because Jewish people were banned from 3 Maja Street. They moved to the house of my mother's grandparents Blumensztok at 2 Pijarska Street and they lived there for a while. Later, staying there was also forbidden and they moved to the first Ghetto – the quarter where Jewish people could live. They lived there together with grandparents, in the same house. My grandfather was working in the Judenrat. Then they had to move to the Majdan Tatarski ghetto. My mother's grandparents didn't get the J-Ausweis cards and could not go with the family because they were too old. They were hiding in a little village the Germans hadn’t arrived to yet. They had to move from place to place until they were found and murdered. My grandmother Hela (Judyta) Goldberg was murdered in Lublin at the train station when she was trying to run away to Warsaw with her sister-in-law Ida Goldberg. It was one day after the ghetto in Majdan Tatarski was liquidated. Somebody identified them. They were shot on the spot. My grandfather was on a train to Bergen-Belsen Szyja-Hersz Goldberg, but I'm not sure whether he actually arrived there – he is not on the lists of arrivals.

 

Ruth Ritter,

born in 1954 in Israel, lives in Switzerland. Her mother Irith Hass (née Goldberg) was born in Lublin, her father Nahum Hass was born in Kopyczyńce (now part of Ukraine). She is teaches Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She has two children.

It is her 1st visit to Lublin.

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