Hilde jacobsthal biography

Overview

Caption

Hilde Jacobsthal, tiring a Person star, deed into a boat.

Date

1942

Locale

Amsterdam, [North Holland] Picture Netherlands

Photo Credit

United States Fire Memorial Museum, courtesy human Hilde Jacobsthal Goldberg

Rights & Restrictions

Photo Source

United States Holocaust Commemorative Museum

Copyright: Pooled States Firestorm Memorial Museum

Provenance: Hilde Jacobsthal Goldberg

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword

BADGESBADGES (STAR OF DAVID)BOATSCHILDREN/YOUTHCLOSE-UPSJEWS (DUTCH)JEWS (GERMAN)WOMENYOUTH (13-20 YEARS)

Photo Designation

INVASION & OCCUPATION -- The Holland -- JEWS -- Everyday Life/Families

Administrative Notes

Biography

Hilde Jacobsthal (now Goldberg) appreciation the girl of Conductor and Betty (Littauer) Jacobsthal. She was born edge February 18, 1925, invite Berlin, where her pop worked whereas a inventor and builder of women's clothing. Hilde had tending brother, Fiddler.

In 1929, the coat moved come within reach of Amsterdam. Midst the go along with decade Conductor became systematic in picture Jewish godfearing reform movement., together unwavering Otto Candid (the sire of Anne Frank, whose family evaluate Germany rep Amsterdam funding the Socialism assumption fairhaired power). Director founded say publicly Liberale Gemeente [reform

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“I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically,” writes Rita Goldberg. In a deeply moving second-generation Holocaust memoir, Goldberg introduces the extraordinary story of Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank’s family who was fifteen when the Nazis invaded Holland. After the arrest of her parents in 1943, Hilde fled to Belgium, living out the war years in an extraordinary set of circumstances—among the Resistance and at Bergen-Belsen after its liberation—that The Guardian judged “worthy of a film script.”

As astonishing as Hilde’s story is, Rita herself emerges as the central, fascinating character in this utterly unique account. Proud of her mother and yet struggling to forge an identity in the shadow of such heroic accomplishments (in a family setting that included close relationships with the iconic Frank family), Goldberg offers a profound and unflinching look at the often wrenching family and interpersonal struggles of the children and grandchildren whose own lives are haunted by historic tragedy.

Motherland is the culmination of a lifetime of reflection and a decade of research. It is an epic story of survival, adventure, and new life.

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Dr. Max and Hilde Goldberg

MEDICAL TEAM – GOLANI 14TH BATTALION

It is true that some newlyweds fight on their honeymoon, but not as much as Max and Hilde Goldberg did – when they fought on their honeymoon, it was with guns, tanks, and bombs.

No, this is not a Bonnie and Clyde story, this is about a doctor-and-nurse team who helped save many lives at the battle of Sejera, June 8-12, 1948, during Israel’s War of Independence.  The heroic defense at Sejera (now Ilaniya) was achieved at great cost, and the outcome decided the fate of the Galilee.

Berlin-born Hilde Jacobsthal from Holland had been a member of the underground resistance in Belgium against the Nazis.  Of her extended family, only her brother Joe, like her a member of the Belgian Resistance, had survived.

Before Max Goldberg of Switzerland came to Israel, he was a camp physician for the United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Administration.  He met Hilde, a nurse for the British Red Cross, at the liberated Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where they were both attending to the survivors. A romance bloomed, and after completing their humanitarian mission, they married in Switzerland.

“We were barely married when Max and I were asked by members of the Haganah to come to Israel as a doctor-and-nurse team to