In memoriam Robert Goldschmidt : Born in Berlin 1868 - Perished in Treblinka October 1942 /

Abstract

The bulk of the manuscript is dedicated to the letters written by Robert (“Bob”) Goldschmidt between his wife’s sudden death in August of 1941 and his deportation in May of 1942. Also included is a short biography of Robert Goldschmidt and the Goldschmidt family.Robert Goldschmidt was born in Berlin, June 10th 1868, but grew up mainly in Brussels, Belgium. He studied at an agriculture college, in order to manage properties he was to inherit from his mother's relatives in Bohemia and Moravia. In 1900 he married a distant relative, Daisy von Goldschmidt in Vienna, Austria. The couple and their sons Arthur, Erich, Ernst, Nicholas, and René lived in an estate in Taikowitz, in Moravia (today Tavìkovice, Czech Republic). In 1941, Daisy died under the hardship of the German occupation, and in 1942 Robert Goldschmidt was deported to Treblinka, where he perished.Taikowitz, Moravia (Tavìkovice, Czech Republic