Phillip (Fievel) Goldfarb, Holocaust Survivor
goldfarb-phillip.m4aFievel (Phillip) Goldfarb was born on August 25, 1921, in Sêdziszów, Poland, near Krakow. Phillip was one of nine children, seven sons and two daughters (one of whom died in childhood): Anna (1900), Oscar (1905), Aaron Selig (1907), Pinek (1909), Wolfek (101), Julius (1913), Isaac (1916), and Fievel (1921).
When the Germans occupied Poland in 1939, Phillip fled east, where from Lvov in the Ukraine, he was deported by the Soviet Union to Siberia and later to Kazakhstan to work in labor camps.
After World War II, in 1946, Phillip returned to his hometown, Sêdziszów, Poland, lookng for surviving family members. He discoverd that his mother, Chaja, oldest brother, Oscar, and two sisters-in-law, Dora and Zyska, along with Aunt Rifka and her eight children, had been murdered in Belzec Death Camp. Selig and Pinek had been murdered when the Nazis liquidated there labor battalion in Pustkow. His other siblings had either immigrated to the US or Israel. Philip lived in four displaced persons’ camps, marrying Celia Turner in 1948. The couple immigrated to the US in 1949.
Celia and Phillip bought a chicken farm in Mullica Township, New Jersey, in 1953. Celia died in 1984. They have a son, Arthur. Phillip has two grandchildren, Jason and Lindsay.
Phillip published his memoir The Pear Tree Did Not Survive, in 2007, and is now translating his brother Julius’s Holocaust diary (in Polish and German), written while Julius was hiding from the Nazis in a bunker near Rzeszow, Poland; he was in the bunker for eight months until he was liberated by the Soviets in 1944. Phillip’s translation of the diary will be published n 2008.
Phillip’s pod cast tells about his pre-World War II life with his family.
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Goldfarb Timetable
1921 Born in Sêdziszów, Poland
1929 Father dies.
1939, September Escapes to Brod and then Dubno, Poland
1939, November Moves to Lvov, Poland
1940 Siberia, USSR
1942 Kazakhstan, USSR
1945 Home to Sêdziszów, Poland
1945-1949 Displaced Persons Camps (Salzburg, Austria; Saltzburg, Germany; Wetzlar am Lahn, Germany; Hanau, Germany)
1948, August 22 Phillip marries Celia
1949 USA, Brooklyn, New York
1953 Buys chicken farm in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.
1955, March 27 Arthur born.
1981 Arthur marries Rosemarie.
1983 Jason, grandson, is born
1984, August 31 Celia dies.
1985 Phillip sells the chicken farm and moves to the Ocean City area.
1986, February 28 Lindsay, granddaughter, is born.
1088 Phillip moves to Sommers Point.
1990 Arthur marries Dale Duffy
2006 Phillip moves to Egg Harbor Twonship to be with Arthur and Dale.
2007 Phillip publishes his memoir, The Pear Tree Did Not Survive.
2o08 Presently Phillip is translating his brother Julius’s Holocaust diary, written in Polish and German.
