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Bernard Goldberg was born in Kaliscz, Poland in 1912. He served in the Polish Army at the beginning of World War II and then survived the Lodz Ghetto and the Holocaust in which he lost his first wife, a son, his parents and his sisters. He began a new life when he met Luba, herself a Romanian Holocaust Survivor, in a post-war refugee camp. In a true story of love at first sight, they married ten days after being introduced. Together they went to Israel in 1948 to start their new lives and their family. Bernard served in the Israeli Defense Forces in the 1948 War of Independence and again in the 1956 Suez Conflict. In 1959, he and his family moved to Columbia, South Carolina, to join family already there. A leader of Columbia’s small Jewish community, The Goldbergs were instrumental in creating Columbia’s Holocaust Memorial in honor of those South Carolina residents who were survivors and those who were U.S. Army liberators. Concerned that the world, and even his own descendants, would forget the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust, he committed his bitter memories, with great difficulty, to writing.
