Sara Goldfinger
Sara Goldfinger was born on September 20, 1933, in Ostrowiec, Poland.
Sara was deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp on November 28, 1944, and was murdered at BullenhuserDamm on April 20, 1945. She was just eleven years old.
Unfortunately, there is no known photograph of Sara Goldfinger.
The only photographs we have of her are those taken by the SS during the 'medical' experiments.
We have deliberately chosen not to reproduce them.
On August 3, 1944, Sara was deported from a forced labor camp in Ostrowiec to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
She survived the selection process and was assigned prisoner number A-16918.
Sara’s parents, Icek (Yitzhak) Goldfinger and Hudessa Goldfinger, née Mincberg, were murdered in the German extermination camps, along with her sister Chava, who was named after their grandmother.
Her grandparents, Yaakov and Chava, as well as her uncles Shmuel, Menakhem, Tzvi, and Leib, also did not survive the Shoah.
Until 2021, it was believed that her name was Surcis Goldinger. However, an investigation by Italian researcher Alberta Bezzan and author Maria Pia Bernicchia revealed the correct name: Sara Goldfinger.
In 1999 a youth centre in Hamburg Burgwedel was named Surcis Goldinger and in 2023 renamed Sara Goldfinger.