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Manfred Goldberg wants you to know how the Nazis took his brother’s life. And how an angel saved his

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London – Manfred Goldberg was only 13 years old when he stripped him of his skin and mixed him towards the SS goalkeeper in the Nazi Labor camp in Latvia – a man who bowed on his shoulder and whispered the secret that saved the life of the young Jew.

“If he encounters you at your age, say you are seventeen years old,” the man told him.

Goldberg followed the advice and his goalkeeper’s advice to the selected group of slave employment. Just later he realized that younger prisoners were sent to death because the guards believe that anyone under the age of 17 was smaller than working profitable to the Nazi war machine.

Goldberg said: “I sometimes think about this man as an angel who has been sent to save me,” Goldberg said. “I didn’t see it again.

The Monday party determines the eighty Auschwitz’s liberation anniversary More than a moment to remember about 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. It is a reminder that the number of survivors is diminishing, leaving less people attesting to the Nazi collective genocide at a time when the Holocaust and anti -Semitism denies.

“I am just a decrease in the ocean,” he said in an interview at the Jewish Holocaust survivors center in London. “But I took my mind that as long as God gives me strength, physical and mental, to continue doing this, I committed to myself to continue doing this. For this reason I am here at the age of 94, I am talking to you.”

This is his story.

Manfred was born in Castle, a city with about 220,000 in central Germany. Only 3 years when the Nazis arrived in power in 1933, he did not realize how the country was changing until he enrolled in the nearby Jewish primary school.

By that time, Hitler’s youth, an organization that was apparently similar to the boy’s scout, began, but was used to implement children in Nazi ideology, to spread the hatred of the Jews.

Goldberg said: “We have sometimes waited, to inform us, attack or curse us,” Goldberg said.

Children have been warned: running or facing more trouble.

Since the Nazis systematically excluded the Jews from public life, they first tried to deport Goldberg’s father, and then threatened to send him to the detention camp. Manfred’s mother, Rosa, begged the time to have a migration visa.

I heard diplomats at the British embassy in Berlin might help, so I traveled 200 miles to see them. Frank Foley, the British secret agent whose job was at the embassy covering his espionage activities, which eventually allowed visas for more than 10,000 Jews to escape from Germany.

“I think he was a man with a heart,” Goldberg said.

Goldberg’s father Foley gave an emergency visa and told his mother that the rest of the family could follow in the coming weeks. But after 10 days, on September 1, 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland. The family was divided.

With the outbreak of the war, Germany climbed anti -Jews laws.

The Jews were asked to wear a six -point yellow star, and they can only buy food in some stores. When the stores were run out, the Jews were lucky.

One day, Goldberg’s mother told him to put his book bag, which covered the star on his jacket, and went with her to a non -Jewish bakery. I stood on the street, gave him a handful of coins and told him to run to the store, ask for a loaf of bread, put the money on the table and seize the bread before anyone could stop it.

“I was 7 or 8 years old. He said:” I did it as I asked me. ” Perhaps she would have been hungry, but she could not bear the vision of her children with hunger. “

Then in 1942, the Nazi regime began in what was called the “final solution”, the systematic implementation of European Jews.

When SS bombed the modest Goldbergs door, give his mother only 10 minutes to pack the bag. After three days and three nights in a train without food or water, Manfred, his younger brother, Hermann and their mother themselves in Riga, the capital of Latvia, found a nightmare to take him to five camps over the next three years.

He lost his name. It became No. 56478.

Soon they reached a sub -camp known as Precu, where Goldberg and his mother were placed at work. But Hermann was very young and stayed in the camp when Manfred and Rosa went out to work. In the end, SS came and took the children away. Manfred did not see his brother again.

“The next morning, my mother and I had to climb and go to work as if nothing happened desirable,” he said. “The mourning happened internally, but if we refuse to go to work, we would have lost our lives.”

Just months later, Goldberg faced the same fate of his brother when he whispered the unknown donor in his ear.

When the Nazis began to lose the land on the eastern front, they moved their prisoners west to remove them from the hands of the Russian and continue to kill.

Goldberg has been transferred to Stotthov, a camp near the Polish city of Jadangsk, which has become the front gate known as the Gate of Death because a few prisoners have alive. More than 60,000 people died in the camp due to Typhus, deadly injection, and began in June 1944, after they were gas with Zyklon B, the same compound used in the gas rooms in Auschwitz.

But there was another horror to come.

As the war in Europe approaches its end, the Nazis continued to lead the inmates in the west towards central Germany.

Goldberg and his mother went to 25 miles northwest, where hundreds of prisoners were nominated on the Barg and detained abroad for several days without food or water. When the SS guards disappeared, the strongest prisoners torn the panels and used them as a neighborhood to blame the huge boats to the beach.

But as the prisoners fell, the guards returned. First, they shot those who flee from escaping, then assembled those who arrived at the beach, including Goldberg and his mother, and began their march to Germany.

Then he arrived in a British tank column.

“Suddenly, our armed guards, who were earlier, were still killing people for not keeping up with speed, turned and fled in the opposite direction, away from us,” Goldberg recalls. People were cheerful. We are not under the guards. We are free! We are free! … you cannot imagine the joy we felt. ” ‘

After I did not sing with his father in England, Goldberg formed a profession as an engineer, married and had four children.

For more than 50 years, he refused to tell his story.

He wanted his children to have ordinary fathers, who are not danced to the weight of the Holocaust. But about 20 years ago, when he was in his seventies, he asked him for a spatial church in a memory service. His wife, Shari, encouraged him to remember him: Who will tell your story when you disappear?

He did not look back.

“Silence does not help at all,” said Goldberg. “It always helps the persecuted.”

The living room at Goldberg’s home in London is a testimony for everything that matters, and it is an exhibition full of children, grandchildren, grandchildren and grandchildren of family gatherings. Standing in the room is to see a man who celebrates the miracle that was allowed to live.

But there is also another picture.

It is a plate of a fat boy cheek with a volatile Bowtie and a smile hint on his lips. He commented next to the front door, where it can be seen every time Goldberg takes into the world, it is a picture of another boy who did not get this opportunity.

Hermann.

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Nat Castaida contributed to this story.

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