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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

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'''Werner Goldschmidt / Werner Goldschmith''' (M / Germany, 1928), Holocaust survivor]]

== Biography ==

Werner Goldschmidt was born November 13, 1928 in Erfurt, Germany. After the death of his father in 1938, he was placed in the [[Auerbach Orphanage]] in Berlin, Germany. On July 3, 1939, only months before the outbreak of World War II, he was sent to France on a Kindertransport, while his mother went to England.

He went first to the [[Chateau de Quincy]]. In September 1941 he emigrated to the United States aboard the [[SS Serpa Pinto (September 1941)|SS Serpa Pinto]]. He lived in Jewish foster homes until he reunited with his mother in 1946.

== USHMM ==

Werner Goldsmith, born in Erfurt, Germany on November 13, 1928, describes his family; the expulsion of Jewish children from German schools in 1938; the death of his father in 1938 and moving with his mother to Berlin, Germany; his mother placing him in the Auerbach Orphanage while she lived with another Jewish woman in West Berlin; his mother arranging for him to be placed in a transport to France while she traveled to England; living in the home of a French count until the invasion of France in 1940; the count being taken prisoner in Germany in 1940 and going into the care of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants; unsuccessfully attempting to flee to southern France and getting separated from the other children when he was placed in the Rothschild orphanage, where he remained for nine months; moving to Marseilles, France in the spring of 1941; receiving an emergency visa in September 1941 to immigrate to the United States because he had relatives there; getting on a transport from Marseilles to Portugal and then embarking on a Portuguese freighter and sailing to the United States; and living in Jewish foster homes until he reunited with his mother in 1946.

== Sources ==

* [[SS Serpa Pinto (September 1941)]] -- confirmed (the name is on the list of passengers)

== External links ==

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[[Category:Kristallnacht (subject)|1928 Goldschmidt]]

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[[Category:Holocaust Refugee Children, France (subject)|1928 Goldschmidt]]

[[Category:Chateau de Quincy (subject)|1928 Goldschmidt]]

[[Category:Holocaust Refugee Children, Spain (subject)|1928 Goldschmidt]]
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