Date of birth:

June 8th, 1919 (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Date of death:

April 20th, 1944 (Brussels, Belgium)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 40. 

Nationality:

Dutch

(1*) Lived in Pijnacker. Son of gas technician/director of the drinking water company De Tien Gemeenten Adriaan Hendrikus Abraham Goldberg (21 March 1891 Hazerswoude – 19 December 1956 Pijnacker) and Helena Adriana de Mooij (27 November 1892 Rijnsburg - 24 September 1977 Oegstgeest). Unmarried. Director of the trading company Haas & Co/student of jurisprudence and tutor in Leiden. Dutch Reformed. In May 1940 he was active as a reserve officer/ensign in the anti-aircraft artillery. Member of the resistance. Goldberg was a member of the Luctor et Emergo resistance group, which in April 1943 changed its name to Fiat Libertas. The group initially focused on gathering economic, political and especially military intelligence and passing it on to London, but from the spring of 1943 Fiat Libertas concentrated entirely on helping allied aircrew who had been shot down. (2*) Goldberg spied for the resistance group during his business trips to Germany, visiting Hamburg and Bremen, among other places. Heere and Vernooij mention that he discovered where the German battle cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst were located. He also provided assistance to persecuted Jewish fellow citizens. For example, he helped them cross the Belgian-Dutch border. On 12 March 1943, the Sipo raided the apartment he had rented at 43 Van Soutelandelaan in The Hague. Goldberg was not at home at the time. When he heard about the raid, he fled to Brussels, where he continued to support the resistance. On 26 June 1943 he was arrested in the Belgian capital for transporting and hiding two Canadian pilots who had made an emergency landing in North Brabant. On 3 September 1943 he was sentenced to death by the Feldgericht des kommandierenden Generals und Befehlhabers im Feldluftgau Belgien at the Palace Hotel in Brussels. The death sentence was carried out on 20 April 1944 at the National Shooting Range (Tir National) in Schaarbeek. (3*) He was posthumously awarded the Resistance Memorial Cross. He was also awarded the Eisenhower certificate ‘for bravery in helping allied soldiers escape from the enemy’. (4*)
(1*) The third name, Abraham, was changed to Aernout by a decision of the Hague court on 18 September 1942.
(2*) At the request of the Bureau Inlichtingen (intelligence agency), the group chose a different name because there was already an organisation called Luctor et Emergo.
(3*) In early July 1944, arrested members of Fiat Libertas included Nelly Elisabeth – Nel – Lind (12 October 1913 Alkmaar – 22 May 1997 Utrecht), Johanna Maria – Joke – Folmer (9 July 1923 Hoofddorp), novelist, playwright and forgery specialist Elias – Eduard – Veterman (9 November 1901 The Hague – 29 June 1946 Laren) and Johannes C. Wannée, a civil servant from The Hague, were sentenced to death in a trial in Utrecht, but the sentence was not carried out. The convicts ended up in prisons in Germany.
(4*) ‘for gallant service in assisting the escape of Allied soldiers from the enemy’

Initially buried in a mass grave in Brussels. After the war, after identification, temporarily reburied in the same grave. On 23 May 1946, permanently laid to rest in grave section 40 of the Bloemendaal War Cemetery.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• - HEUVEL, C.C. VAN DEN e.a., Verzetsherdenkingskruis, Samsom Uitgeverij, 1985.
  Peter H. Heere en Arnold Th. Vernooij, De Eerebegraafplaats te Bloemendaal, SDU Uitgevers, Den Haag, 2005; Comité Verzetsherdenkingskruis/C.C. van den Heuvel, W.J.C. Tensen (samenstellers), Gedenkboek Verzetsherdenkingskruis, waarin opgenomen Register Dragers Verzetsherdenkingskruis, Samson Uitgeverij, 1985; Oorlogsgravenstichting; Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945; site wiewaswie.nl; site geneakatwijk.webtrees.net. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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