Klara Goldberger 1913 - 1945 Edit
Born 5.4.1913 in Budapest
Died 17.5.1945 in Mauthausen
Biography
The Hungarian Jew Klara Goldberger was born on 8 April 1913 in Budapest. He parents were Iren Klein and David Gero. Her husband was called László Goldberger. After the German occupation of Hungary in 1944 Klara was deported from Budapest to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. From there, in January 1945, she was sent to work as a forced labourer for the Junkers company to the Venusberg subcamp near Chemnitz, which was part of Flossenbürg concentration camp.[1] Klara was registered there under prisoner number 61901 and with the date of birth ‘5.4.13’.
Following the arrival of a transport of another 500 Jewish women from Bergen-Belsen in February 1945 the conditions in the camp, which had been more bearable at first, deteriorated. Sick women had brought typhus to Venusberg with them and the deadly epidemic could not be stemmed. Only as the front drew ever closer was the camp disbanded on 14 April 1945 and Klara was evacuated by train towards the south.
The evacuation transport reached Mauthausen concentration camp at the earliest on 28 April; on 5 May the emaciated and sick prisoners were liberated. But by no means all those who were liberated managed to survive. It seems that Klara too was among the victims and according to postwar Hungarian documents she died on 17 May 1945 in Mauthausen.[2] According to another death certificate, Klara Goldberger had died or was killed already on 31 May 1944. However, this postwar reconstruction[3] cannot be correct.
Pascal Cziborra
Translation into English: Joanna White
[1] Cf. Pascal Cziborra: KZ Venusberg: Der verschleppte Tod (Bielefeld 2008).
[2] Yad Vashem, Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, Item ID 6632512 – M.34.1 – Original Record No. m-I/4.
[3] Yad Vahsem, Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, Item ID 6638688 – M.34.1 – Original Record No. 207617/1047/49. Also cf. Yad Vashem, Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, Item ID 5839328.