Simon Goldman
"Don't give up!"
Date of birth
03/03/1924
Where did you grow up?
Mannheim, Germany
Name of father, occupation
Herman (Tzvi),
Watchmaker, jewelry maker
Maiden name of mother, occupation
Freda,
Homemaker
Immediate family (names, birth order)
My parents, Joseph, Esther and me
Who survived the Holocaust?
My father, Joseph, Esther and I
In early 1940, before the ghetto was established in Lodz, we moved to Szydlowiec. In 1941, I left my family and went to work on a farm as a gentile under the assumed name of Marian Kowalski. I returned to Lodz in 1945 to look for surviving relatives. I found none, except for a first cousin in Lintz, Austria. I left Lodz in October of 1945 and found the cousin, Ganian Cingser, in the Bindermichel DP camp.
My brother and sister immigrated to Palestine in 1938 before the war. My father survived the war and moved to Israel afterwards.
Where were you in hiding?
Denmark from 1940-1943
Occupation after the war
Ilona Hoffman
Children
Michael Goldman, attorney (died of Hodgkin’s Disease as a young man)
What message would you like to leave for future generations?
Don't give up!
Interviewer:
Charles Silow
Interview date:
05/08/2009
To learn more about this survivor, please visit:
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/goldman/
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/goldman/
