We were honoured to host Manfred Goldberg at The Warehouse on the 27th of April 2023 where a full house of 180 guests were able to hear his inspiring story of surviving the Holocaust.
Manfred was born on 21 April 1930 in Kassel, Germany. In December 1941, Manfred was deported to the Riga Ghetto in Latvia. Throughout Manfred’s time in the ghetto, the Nazis regularly selected inmates of the ghetto for mass shootings. In August 1943, Manfred was sent to a labour camp, forced to work laying railway tracks. The prisoners in the camp were treated brutally and subjected to frequent selections. As the Red Army approached Riga, Manfred evacuated to Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (today Gdańsk in Poland) in August 1944. He spent more than eight months as a slave worker in Stutthof. The camp was abandoned just days before the war ended and Manfred and other prisoners were sent on a death march in appalling conditions. Manfred was finally liberated at Neustadt in Germany on 3 May 1945.
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