HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS TESTIMONY
Deported in 1941 to the Riga Ghetto Manfred Goldberg aged 11, his brother aged 7, and their mother spent three and a half years in labour and concentration camps where his brother disappeared presumed murdered. He and his mother were liberated by British troops days before the wars end.
Manfred Goldberg was born in 1930 in Germany. In 1941, he and his younger brother aged 7, and their Mother were deported to the Riga Ghetto. They spent three and a half years in various labour and concentration camps where his younger brother disappeared presumed murdered. He and his Mother were finally liberated by British troops just days before the end of the war. He arrived in the UK in September 1946 and has lived here ever since. He is married with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
On 18 July 2017, he and his concentration camp friend Zigi Shipper, visited Stutthof concentration camp alongside the Prince and Princess of Wales. In 2022 King Charles III commissioned a portrait of Manfred and six other survivors for an exhibition titled Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust, which is displayed in Buckingham Palace.
The Assembly Room, Chichester