Sara Goldfinger
Sara Goldfinger was born on September 20, 1933, in Ostrowiec, Poland.
When Sara was taken to the Neuengamme concentration camp on November 28, 1944, and murdered at Bullenhuser Damm on April 20, 1945, she was 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 taken from a forced labour camp on Ostrowiec to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
She survived the selection and was given the prisoner number A-16918.
Her parents Icek (Yitzhak) Goldfinger and Hudessa Goldfinger, née Mincberg, were murdered in the German extermination camps, as well as her sister Chava, named after her grandmother.
Sara's grandparents, Yaakov and Chava, and her uncles Shmuel, Menakhem, Tzvi, and Leib also did not survive the Shoah.
Until 2021 it was believed that her name was Surcis Goldinger; an investigation by the Italian researcher Alberta Bezzan and the author Maria Pia Bernicchia proved otherwise.
In 1999 a youth centre in Hamburg Burgwedel was named Surcis Goldinger and in 2023 renamed Sara Goldfinger.