Overview
- Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust praised Goldberg as “truly extraordinary” and said he dedicated his life to remembrance and confronting antisemitism.
- He was made an MBE by the King at Clarence House in September for services to Holocaust education and remembrance.
- Born in Kassel in 1930, he was deported to the Riga Ghetto in 1941, later sent to Stutthof and its subcamps, and was liberated by the British Army in May 1945 at age 15.
- He came to Britain in September 1946 to reunite with his father, who escaped Germany in 1939 with a visa arranged by British diplomat Frank Foley.
- He spent decades speaking to students nationwide, met senior public figures including the King and the Prince and Princess of Wales, and in 2018 laid a memorial stone for his brother Herman.