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		MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST 
		  
		  
			No family was left 
			untouched by the devastating effects of the Holocaust. 
			This page pays a solemn tribute to those of the Goldberg Group who 
			lost their lives in the most infamous genocide of all time. Their 
		approximate ages, places and years of death are given after their names. May 
			their dear souls rest in peace. 
		  
		  
			
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				1. Awigdor Jakob Gornecki (55, 
				Auschwitz, 1942) 
				Born in Ozorkow in 1887, was 
				politically outspoken and had to flee Poland as a result. Having 
				escaped to Lille, France, and fathered a family, was arrested in 
				September 1942. Deported to Auschwitz from the Malines camp in Belgium 
				with his wife and two youngest children on 15 September, on 
				Convoi 84. | 
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				2. Bernard Gornecki (13, 
				Auschwitz, 1942) 
				Born in Lille, France, in 1928, he 
				was arrested with his parents and sister in 
				September 1942. Deported to Auschwitz from the Malines camp in 
				Belgium with them on 
				15 September on Convoi 84. | 
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				3. Elka Gornecki (née 
				Lipman; 55, Auschwitz, 1942) 
				Born in Lodz in 1887, she married 
				but had to flee to her sister in Leeds c.1919 with her young 
				son, Moshe, when her husband's political activism placed the 
				family in danger. She later rejoined her husband in Lille, 
				France, where the couple had more children. Deported to 
				Auschwitz from the Malines camp in Belgium with her husband and two 
				youngest children on 15 September 1942 on Convoi 84. | 
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				4. Sarah Gornecki (16, 
				Auschwitz, 1942) 
				Born in Lille, France, in 1925, she 
				was arrested with her parents and brother 
				in September 1942. Deported to Auschwitz from Malines with them 
				on 15 September on Convoi 84. | 
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				5. Fajga Perl Komorowska (née 
				Przedborska; 63, 
				Lodz Ghetto, 1942) 
				Born in 1878, Fajga Perl had married 
				Efraim Fiszel Komorowski in Lodz in 1899. Her name and that of 
				her son are listed amongst the inhabitants of the Lodz Ghetto, 
				where she died on 9 February 1942, from malnutrition. | 
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				6. Moszek Aron Komorowski (33, Chelmno, 1944) 
				Born in 1910, Moszek Aron and his 
				mother are listed amongst the inhabitants of the Lodz Ghetto. 
				His listing includes his profession (a tailor) and that he was 
				brought to the ghetto from the outlying town of Ozorkow. He 
				appears to have been deported from the ghetto to the Chelmno 
				extermination camp on 3 July 1944. | 
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				7. Mordka Najman (41, Auschwitz, 1942) 
				Born in Brzeziny, 
				Poland, in 
				1901, he lived in Paris with his wife and two children. He was arrested 
				in one of the first raids on foreign Jews in the city, on 14 May 1941, 
				and interned in the Pithiviers camp. He was deported from there 
				to Auschwitz on 17 July 1942, on 
				Convoi 6. His 
				brother was also arrested and vowed to Mordka that, should he 
				survive and Mordka did not, he would take care of Mordka's 
				children. Mordka died in Auschwitz on 19 August 1942; his 
				brother's vow was later redeemed. | 
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				8. Sara Najman (née 
				Parzenczewska; 33, Auschwitz, 1942) 
				Born in Lodz in 
				1909 and moved to Paris in 1920. Married with two children, and 
				her husband already arrested and deported to Auschwitz, 
				she suffered the same fate on 2 September 1942, arrested in Paris, 
				along with her father, in front of her 11-year-old son. 
				Deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 14 September, on Convoi 32, and died 
				there on 19 September. | 
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				9. Szlama  
				Parzenczewski (58, Auschwitz, 1942) 
				Born in Lodz in 
				1884 and moved to Paris via Brussels in 1919. Father of a large 
				family of girls, he had tried to gain entry to England in the 
				1920s, without success. Alerted to his daughter's arrest on 
				2 September 1942 by his grandson, he was arrested without even 
				being allowed to bring a jacket. Having spent two days at the Drancy detention camp, he was moved to Pithiviers, from where he 
				was deported to Auschwitz on 21 September, on Convoi 35, and died there on 25 September. | 
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				| Sources: (1) 
				Victor Gornecki; (2) Serge Rycine; (3) Klarsfeld, 
		S (1978), “Le Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France”, Beate 
		Klarsfeld Foundation, Paris. No ISBN; (4) 
				http://www.mortsdanslecamps.com. |  |