Join Us at The Artistic Academy as Holocaust Survivor Shares His Remarkable Story

Edward Mosberg, a philanthropist from Union County, was one of only six people who met with the Pope Benedict XVI at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.  He was selected to be one of six persons who were representing the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. ”This was a very important meeting,” Mosberg said.

A survivor of the Krakow-Plaszow and Mauthausen concentration camps, Mosberg still wears his camp registration number, 85454.

“Not only was he in concentration camps, he was in work camps, on death marches; he experienced every degradation there was—and his whole family was wiped out.  Born in Krakow, Poland, Mosberg lost his family in the Holocaust and barely survived himself.

“First, I worked in the Krakow Ghetto then Plaszow Concentration Camp, where the famous sadist Amon Goeth was the commandant,” Mosberg has said. “Then, I worked in Mauthausen (in Austria) in the stone mines. I worked carrying boulders up and down the stairs—186 steps, up and down. It started in the morning, till it got dark. Then, I was transported to Linz, to the Hermann Goering factory.”

Mosberg remained a slave laborer until May 5, 1945. As the Allies were closing in on the concentration camp, the Nazi moved all of the prisoners and marched into the countryside where they had caves set up with dynamite. The caves were set to explode and kill them. But the dynamite failed to ignite.

On May 5, 1945, Mosberg—the only surviving member of his family—was liberated.

In a Concentration Camp, he met Cecile, another Krakow native who also had lost many members of her family in the Holocaust. The couple, who have three daughters and several grandchildren, have devoted their time to the Jewish community and to recovering, restoring and preserving many Jewish cultural artifacts lost during the Holocaust. Some of these artifacts include Torah Scrolls used in many synagogues in the United States and Israel.

Please join Mr. Ed Mosberg, one of the few remaining survivors, as he shares his remarkable story about the Holocaust.

When: Friday, April 20^th and 6:15pm (food and beverage to follow)