Goldberg-Kardimann family. Collection

Bernhard Goldberg was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany, on 20 October 1905 as the son of Majer Goldberg (born on 20 October 1876 in Przedborz, Poland) and Malka Goldberg (born on 9 March 1876 in Czestochowa, Poland). Bernhard became a merchant. In 1929, he and his parents, all Polish nationals, immigrated from Germany to Belgium, and settled in Brussels. On 29 May 1935, Bernhard married Rosa Kardimann, who was born on 1st August 1908 in Vienna, Austria, and who had immigrated from Germany to Belgium in 1933. On 26 February 1939, Rosa gave birth to a son whom was named Raymond. When Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940, Bernhard, Rosa, their son Raymond and Bernhard’s parents Majer and Malka all lived at Rue du Lavoir 33 in Brussels. During the big anti-Jewish raid which was organized around the Bruxelles-Midi train station in the night of 3 on 4 September 1942, seventeen Jews were rounded up in Rue du Lavoir. The Goldberg-Kardimann family home was not invaded. Bernhard, Rosa, Raymond, Majer and Malka were arrested together more than two months after this large-scale wave of arrests. On 19 November 1942, all five family members were registered at the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks). Their names were added to the deportation list of transport XVIII which was bound to leave for Auschwitz-Birkenau on 15 January 1943. However, Raymond (3 years old) was transferred to one of the children’s homes run by the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des Juifs en Belgique, AJB), where he would survive the war. Majer Goldberg (66 years old) suffered from dementia, and was transferred from the Dossin barracks to the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Gasthuis, a hospital in Mechelen, where he passed away on 1st January 1943. Bernhard, Rosa and Bernhard’s mother Malka were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau via transport XVIII on 15 January 1943 and were all murdered.

On 20 March 1995, Golda Zielinski-Schweizer, niece of Bernhard and Rosa Goldberg-Kardimann, kindly donated the three photos in this collection to the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, predecessor of Kazerne Dossin.

Golda Zielinski-Schweizer, 1995