Aron Izak Goldschmied was born in Podgorze (Krakow) on 17th October 1911 (a copy of his birth record is shown in the photographs here).
He was named after his paternal great grandfather.
He may have been a skilled leather-worker (on a record, held at Yad Vashem, with very minimal information, there is a person named Aron Goldschmied, in the Krakow ghetto, on a list of skilled crafts-people). However, on one Holocaust record (Mauthausen concentration camp) it shows his 'occupation' was 'lock smith'. Oddly, there were relatives saved at Oskar Schindler's factory in Krakow, and all were given arbitary occupations as Lock smiths! (the official research I read, said they were assigned those occupations, perhaps they were more likely to have been accommodated at the factory with those sort of skills). Having said that, a skilled leather-worker could adapt his/her skills to other skilled manual tasks, and his father and grandfather were tin-smiths (though his father changed his occupation later) and there were other craftspeople in the larger family.
During the Holocaust, Aron Izak (Aron Isaac) was deported from Krakow ghetto to Auschwitz.
On 29th January 1945, Aron and his brother, Baruch Hirsch, were sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, along with thousands of others from Auschwitz.
Aron Isaac was sent to the sub-camp, GUSEN, (at Mauthausen).
'...Gusen was classed as a branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp, and was originally conceived with a capacity of around 6,000 inmates, larger than that of the main camp in Mauthausen.[...] As in Mauthausen, initially most were used as forced labourers in the quarries. In particular in the years 1940 to 1942, the prisoners were killed systematically in their thousands, or they died as a result of the murderous conditions. In 1941 the number of deaths in the Gusen branch camp was several times as high as in Mauthausen (main camp)...'
https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/en/History/The-Mauthausen-Concentration-Camp-19381945/The-Gusen-Branch-Camp I read that later on (perhaps when Aron Isaac and Baruch Hirsch were sent there), prisoners were needed in the armament industry, as slave labour (rather than the stone quarry) and therefore deaths were not more than the rest of the Mauthausen complex; however, the 'rest' was simply hideous all round.
There is a record showing that Aron was hospitalised at Mauthausen (between when he arrived and when he died, no specific date or any other details). ('hospital' was merely a place to die, they were left...with 'selections' of the very sick to lethally inject into the heart).
Tragically, he was murdered/died from a combination of shocking health, starvation, over-work, likely illness, effects of brutality etc, in Mauthausen on 20 March 1945 (shortly before the camp was liberated by the allies). It is also possible that he was witness to mass brutalities, as the Nazis murdered those who were witnesses, when they realised they were losing the war and their evil time was running out (they got rid of camp records, killed witnesses and tried to hide destroy all the evidence.)
At Mauthausen itself, today there is an online memorial (the 'room of names') for the victims, . See their website. Currently this is the link for Aron's memorial: https://raumdernamen.mauthausen-memorial.org/index.php?L=1
He was named after his paternal great grandfather.
He may have been a skilled leather-worker (on a record, held at Yad Vashem, with very minimal information, there is a person named Aron Goldschmied, in the Krakow ghetto, on a list of skilled crafts-people). However, on one Holocaust record (Mauthausen concentration camp) it shows his 'occupation' was 'lock smith'. Oddly, there were relatives saved at Oskar Schindler's factory in Krakow, and all were given arbitary occupations as Lock smiths! (the official research I read, said they were assigned those occupations, perhaps they were more likely to have been accommodated at the factory with those sort of skills). Having said that, a skilled leather-worker could adapt his/her skills to other skilled manual tasks, and his father and grandfather were tin-smiths (though his father changed his occupation later) and there were other craftspeople in the larger family.
During the Holocaust, Aron Izak (Aron Isaac) was deported from Krakow ghetto to Auschwitz.
On 29th January 1945, Aron and his brother, Baruch Hirsch, were sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, along with thousands of others from Auschwitz.
Aron Isaac was sent to the sub-camp, GUSEN, (at Mauthausen).
'...Gusen was classed as a branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp, and was originally conceived with a capacity of around 6,000 inmates, larger than that of the main camp in Mauthausen.[...] As in Mauthausen, initially most were used as forced labourers in the quarries. In particular in the years 1940 to 1942, the prisoners were killed systematically in their thousands, or they died as a result of the murderous conditions. In 1941 the number of deaths in the Gusen branch camp was several times as high as in Mauthausen (main camp)...'
https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/en/History/The-Mauthausen-Concentration-Camp-19381945/The-Gusen-Branch-Camp I read that later on (perhaps when Aron Isaac and Baruch Hirsch were sent there), prisoners were needed in the armament industry, as slave labour (rather than the stone quarry) and therefore deaths were not more than the rest of the Mauthausen complex; however, the 'rest' was simply hideous all round.
There is a record showing that Aron was hospitalised at Mauthausen (between when he arrived and when he died, no specific date or any other details). ('hospital' was merely a place to die, they were left...with 'selections' of the very sick to lethally inject into the heart).
Tragically, he was murdered/died from a combination of shocking health, starvation, over-work, likely illness, effects of brutality etc, in Mauthausen on 20 March 1945 (shortly before the camp was liberated by the allies). It is also possible that he was witness to mass brutalities, as the Nazis murdered those who were witnesses, when they realised they were losing the war and their evil time was running out (they got rid of camp records, killed witnesses and tried to hide destroy all the evidence.)
At Mauthausen itself, today there is an online memorial (the 'room of names') for the victims, . See their website. Currently this is the link for Aron's memorial: https://raumdernamen.mauthausen-memorial.org/index.php?L=1
Aron Izak Goldschmied was born in Podgorze (Krakow) on 17th October 1911 (a copy of his birth record is shown in the photographs here).
He was named after his paternal great grandfather.
He may have been a skilled leather-worker (on a record, held at Yad Vashem, with very minimal information, there is a person named Aron Goldschmied, in the Krakow ghetto, on a list of skilled crafts-people). However, on one Holocaust record (Mauthausen concentration camp) it shows his 'occupation' was 'lock smith'. Oddly, there were relatives saved at Oskar Schindler's factory in Krakow, and all were given arbitary occupations as Lock smiths! (the official research I read, said they were assigned those occupations, perhaps they were more likely to have been accommodated at the factory with those sort of skills). Having said that, a skilled leather-worker could adapt his/her skills to other skilled manual tasks, and his father and grandfather were tin-smiths (though his father changed his occupation later) and there were other craftspeople in the larger family.
During the Holocaust, Aron Izak (Aron Isaac) was deported from Krakow ghetto to Auschwitz.
On 29th January 1945, Aron and his brother, Baruch Hirsch, were sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, along with thousands of others from Auschwitz.
Aron Isaac was sent to the sub-camp, GUSEN, (at Mauthausen).
'...Gusen was classed as a branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp, and was originally conceived with a capacity of around 6,000 inmates, larger than that of the main camp in Mauthausen.[...] As in Mauthausen, initially most were used as forced labourers in the quarries. In particular in the years 1940 to 1942, the prisoners were killed systematically in their thousands, or they died as a result of the murderous conditions. In 1941 the number of deaths in the Gusen branch camp was several times as high as in Mauthausen (main camp)...'
https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/en/History/The-Mauthausen-Concentration-Camp-19381945/The-Gusen-Branch-Camp I read that later on (perhaps when Aron Isaac and Baruch Hirsch were sent there), prisoners were needed in the armament industry, as slave labour (rather than the stone quarry) and therefore deaths were not more than the rest of the Mauthausen complex; however, the 'rest' was simply hideous all round.
There is a record showing that Aron was hospitalised at Mauthausen (between when he arrived and when he died, no specific date or any other details). ('hospital' was merely a place to die, they were left...with 'selections' of the very sick to lethally inject into the heart).
Tragically, he was murdered/died from a combination of shocking health, starvation, over-work, likely illness, effects of brutality etc, in Mauthausen on 20 March 1945 (shortly before the camp was liberated by the allies). It is also possible that he was witness to mass brutalities, as the Nazis murdered those who were witnesses, when they realised they were losing the war and their evil time was running out (they got rid of camp records, killed witnesses and tried to hide destroy all the evidence.)
At Mauthausen itself, today there is an online memorial (the 'room of names') for the victims, . See their website. Currently this is the link for Aron's memorial: https://raumdernamen.mauthausen-memorial.org/index.php?L=1
He was named after his paternal great grandfather.
He may have been a skilled leather-worker (on a record, held at Yad Vashem, with very minimal information, there is a person named Aron Goldschmied, in the Krakow ghetto, on a list of skilled crafts-people). However, on one Holocaust record (Mauthausen concentration camp) it shows his 'occupation' was 'lock smith'. Oddly, there were relatives saved at Oskar Schindler's factory in Krakow, and all were given arbitary occupations as Lock smiths! (the official research I read, said they were assigned those occupations, perhaps they were more likely to have been accommodated at the factory with those sort of skills). Having said that, a skilled leather-worker could adapt his/her skills to other skilled manual tasks, and his father and grandfather were tin-smiths (though his father changed his occupation later) and there were other craftspeople in the larger family.
During the Holocaust, Aron Izak (Aron Isaac) was deported from Krakow ghetto to Auschwitz.
On 29th January 1945, Aron and his brother, Baruch Hirsch, were sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, along with thousands of others from Auschwitz.
Aron Isaac was sent to the sub-camp, GUSEN, (at Mauthausen).
'...Gusen was classed as a branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp, and was originally conceived with a capacity of around 6,000 inmates, larger than that of the main camp in Mauthausen.[...] As in Mauthausen, initially most were used as forced labourers in the quarries. In particular in the years 1940 to 1942, the prisoners were killed systematically in their thousands, or they died as a result of the murderous conditions. In 1941 the number of deaths in the Gusen branch camp was several times as high as in Mauthausen (main camp)...'
https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/en/History/The-Mauthausen-Concentration-Camp-19381945/The-Gusen-Branch-Camp I read that later on (perhaps when Aron Isaac and Baruch Hirsch were sent there), prisoners were needed in the armament industry, as slave labour (rather than the stone quarry) and therefore deaths were not more than the rest of the Mauthausen complex; however, the 'rest' was simply hideous all round.
There is a record showing that Aron was hospitalised at Mauthausen (between when he arrived and when he died, no specific date or any other details). ('hospital' was merely a place to die, they were left...with 'selections' of the very sick to lethally inject into the heart).
Tragically, he was murdered/died from a combination of shocking health, starvation, over-work, likely illness, effects of brutality etc, in Mauthausen on 20 March 1945 (shortly before the camp was liberated by the allies). It is also possible that he was witness to mass brutalities, as the Nazis murdered those who were witnesses, when they realised they were losing the war and their evil time was running out (they got rid of camp records, killed witnesses and tried to hide destroy all the evidence.)
At Mauthausen itself, today there is an online memorial (the 'room of names') for the victims, . See their website. Currently this is the link for Aron's memorial: https://raumdernamen.mauthausen-memorial.org/index.php?L=1
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