Sandy GoldbergNew York, NY, United States
Both my parents are Holocaust survivors. My father is from Tarnow, Poland, about 45 miles east of Krakow. He was one of seven children and the only one in his family to survive the war. He survived in part because he was a Schindler Jew. After the war he lived briefly with relatives in London, then found his “uncle in America” and immigrated to NY in 1947.
My mother was born in Czernowitz, which was part of Romania at the time but is now in western Ukraine. She and her family survived the war together in Bucharest. After the war they spent time in Switzerland and Italy and finally settled in Cuba, where they spent about 8 years. The photo above was taken in Havana in May 1950 – my mother is being crowned queen of Beitar (a Zionist youth movement) by Menachem Begin. Her family immigrated to NY in 1955 – that’s where she and my father met.