Edith Goldberg: An Unforgettable Journey “Edith Goldberg is one of 10,000 mainly Jewish children who escaped Nazi persecution on the Kindertransport scheme,” (The Yorkshire Post: Edith Goldberg). She went through watching her father and uncle being taken away by police. They eventually returning home, but soon after she lost her mother and father when they were deported. Lastly, when she was split up between her sister when they were put with foster families. Edith was only 11 years old when the holocaust changed her life forever.
The first climactic part of Edith Goldberg's life is when she witnessed her father and uncle being taken away by two Gestapo men. “During Kristallnacht, in November 1938, plainclothes police came for her father and uncle in the middle of the night and took them away,” (Edith and her Adoptive Family: Edith Goldberg). “Irmgard [Edith’s sister] was sleeping and frightened Edith sat on the stairs listening. The men were taken to Dachau concentration camp but returned home sometime later, never to speak about their experiences,” (The Yorkshire Post: Edith Goldberg). Even though they returned home, that night is one that Edith and her family will never forget. …show more content…
Not realising they would never see their parents again, this was slowly becoming Edith’s next life trauma. “Edith can remember her mother crying and her father looking stern. She doesn't think she and her sister, who was two years younger than Edith, really understood what was happening,” (Edith and her Adoptive Family: Edith Goldberg). In 1940 Edith’s mother and father were deported to Camp de Gurs in the Pyrenees. Then in 1942 they were transported to Auschwitz and were never seen
The first climactic part of Edith Goldberg's life is when she witnessed her father and uncle being taken away by two Gestapo men. “During Kristallnacht, in November 1938, plainclothes police came for her father and uncle in the middle of the night and took them away,” (Edith and her Adoptive Family: Edith Goldberg). “Irmgard [Edith’s sister] was sleeping and frightened Edith sat on the stairs listening. The men were taken to Dachau concentration camp but returned home sometime later, never to speak about their experiences,” (The Yorkshire Post: Edith Goldberg). Even though they returned home, that night is one that Edith and her family will never forget. …show more content…
Not realising they would never see their parents again, this was slowly becoming Edith’s next life trauma. “Edith can remember her mother crying and her father looking stern. She doesn't think she and her sister, who was two years younger than Edith, really understood what was happening,” (Edith and her Adoptive Family: Edith Goldberg). In 1940 Edith’s mother and father were deported to Camp de Gurs in the Pyrenees. Then in 1942 they were transported to Auschwitz and were never seen