Sarah Goldberg

Sarah Goldberg was a Polish resistance fighter and human rights activist. Goldberg became part of a Soviet espionage group that operated in Europe in World War II that would later be identified by the Abwehr as the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle"). Life Goldberg was born into a very poor working-class pious Jewish Polish family consisting of 9 siblings, four of whom died in infancy. Goldberg was only a nine months old when her mother, Eve (Jentka) Goldberg née Eisenstein died of Typhus. Her father was Berek Goldberg, who moved the family to Łódź after her mother died, settling in the Jewish quarter. On the 6 December 1928, her father married Gevetka Frenkiel, who was given the name "Aunt Rywka" by the family. Less than a year later in August 1929, her father again decided to emigrate, settling in a house in Rue des Vétérinaires in Anderlecht , Brussels, to escape the anti-semitic Pogrom's. Her father sold hosiery and haberdashery for a living. Goldberg attended the local primary school in the Jewish quarter in Anderlecht and took her secondary education in the commercial section of the technical secondary school at the . Politics In 1936, at the age of fifteen, under the influence of her sister Esther and brother-in-law Marcus Lustbader, she joined a left-wing Jewish sports club "Unite" on Rue des Foulons, that was run by communist militants. As foreigner's were banned from being members of left-wing organisations, the club members practiced gymnastics. There she acquired a political education and took part in solidarity campaigns in support of the International Brigades in Spain.