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From the collection of the University of Łódź, Center for Jewish Research

Jakub Goldberg (1924-2011) was born in Łódź into a family of timber
merchants. Before the war, he attended the Rev. Skorupka Middle School. As
a teenager, he became involved in the activities of the youth socialist organiza-
tion, Jugnt-Bund Cukunft (Youth Organization “Future”).
In 1940, he was forced to move to the ghetto with his family. His mother died
in the ghetto. In March 1944, he was deported from the ghetto to the Hasag
ammunition factory in Częstochowa and Skarżysko Kamienna. From there, he was
sent to the sub-camp of Buchenwald in Meuselwitz near Leipzig, from where he
was forced to join the death march with a group of inmates. He was liberated
by the Allies, landed in a hospital in the Sudetes, then he returned to Łódź and
began studying at the University of Łódź. After the war, he remained an active
member of the Bund until the party was dissolved. In Łódź, he worked as a
researcher and published texts devoted to the history of Jews in the First Polish
Republic. In the face of a growing anti-Jewish atmosphere, in 1967, he left with
his family to Israel, where he continued his career as a researcher. He returned
to Łódź in 2010, on the occasion of the solemn renewal of his doctorate, at which
occasion the Łódź researcher’s community published a work dedicated to the
Professor entitled I belong to the Polish historical school. Studies and sketches
dedicated to Prof. Jakub Goldberg.

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