As Auschwitz survivors from the same home town, Abram Goldberg knew he and Cesia had a lot in common. But it wasn’t until they were alone that he discovered she shared his feelings
It was a relief to finally be safe in Brussels with my old friend Mumek after being liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. We spent a lot of time at the headquarters of the Bund – a Jewish socialist political organisation founded in Lithuania with a strong presence in Poland – where we found many familiar faces and people we knew who had been smuggled across the border from Germany.
One day a pair of pretty young women walked into the club. I was glad I’d decided to put on a clean white shirt that morning, even if the sleeves were rolled up for my game of ping-pong with Mumek. As the women walked past I was so distracted by the smaller one with dark curls that I let Mumek’s ball fly straight past me.
