Lina Goldberg
@thecuckootree.com
Glasgow. Semi-recent MA in History of Family. Social historian, genealogist, pressed penny collector, dog lover, Italian learner, gourmand. She/her.
Today I made an appointment to apply for German citizenship under Article 116(2) of the Basic Law. This is the Reich newspaper that announced that my Jewish grandmother had been stripped of her citizenship.
July 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today I made an appointment to apply for German citizenship under Article 116(2) of the Basic Law. This is the Reich newspaper that announced that my Jewish grandmother had been stripped of her citizenship.
Just spoke Italian to a flight attendant on my flight to Italy. Absolutely killing it.
April 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Just spoke Italian to a flight attendant on my flight to Italy. Absolutely killing it.
Mayer and Milka and Bernhard and Rosel were sent to the Mechelen transit camp, halfway between Antwerp and Brussels, to wait for their deportation. Mayer died in the transit camp, and Milka and Bernhard and Rosel were deported to Auschwitz on Transport XVIII on 15 January 1943.
April 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Mayer and Milka and Bernhard and Rosel were sent to the Mechelen transit camp, halfway between Antwerp and Brussels, to wait for their deportation. Mayer died in the transit camp, and Milka and Bernhard and Rosel were deported to Auschwitz on Transport XVIII on 15 January 1943.
In November, 1942 the entire family were to be deported, but the Association des Juifs en Belgique were able to secure a place for Bernhard and Rosel's young son in one of their orphanages. This photo was taken at the orphanage; the boy on the right is him.
April 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In November, 1942 the entire family were to be deported, but the Association des Juifs en Belgique were able to secure a place for Bernhard and Rosel's young son in one of their orphanages. This photo was taken at the orphanage; the boy on the right is him.
Bernhard married Rosel (Rosa) Kardimann in Brussels in 1935 when he was 30 and she was 27. Rosel was born in Vienna to Polish parents, but like Bernhard, had been raised in Germany. They ran a grocery store and had a son in 1939.
April 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Bernhard married Rosel (Rosa) Kardimann in Brussels in 1935 when he was 30 and she was 27. Rosel was born in Vienna to Polish parents, but like Bernhard, had been raised in Germany. They ran a grocery store and had a son in 1939.
For Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) I wanted to memorialise some of the Goldbergs in my family who were murdered in the Holocaust.
April 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
For Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) I wanted to memorialise some of the Goldbergs in my family who were murdered in the Holocaust.
This is the 1917 hospital tag from when my Jewish great grandfather had his leg amputated from an injury he received fighting for Germany in WWI.
April 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is the 1917 hospital tag from when my Jewish great grandfather had his leg amputated from an injury he received fighting for Germany in WWI.
And here are some more photos of the beautiful Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow
February 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
And here are some more photos of the beautiful Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow
The Wiener Holocaust Library event at the Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre yesterday was great. I learned more about the International Tracing Service (ITS) and how to preserve my home archive. Plus a tour of the Scottish Jewish Archives and Garnethill Synagogue. @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Wiener Holocaust Library event at the Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre yesterday was great. I learned more about the International Tracing Service (ITS) and how to preserve my home archive. Plus a tour of the Scottish Jewish Archives and Garnethill Synagogue. @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
I'm researching a Jewish woman who fled to the US in 1941. While examining her passenger manifest I noticed that her contact person in the US was no less than Margaret Sanger at 501 Madison Avenue, NYC, the Planned Parenthood headquarters!
February 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I'm researching a Jewish woman who fled to the US in 1941. While examining her passenger manifest I noticed that her contact person in the US was no less than Margaret Sanger at 501 Madison Avenue, NYC, the Planned Parenthood headquarters!
I got my MA at University of Limerick in History of Family yesterday. So pleased to be done and very proud of all of my peers. Time to decide what's next!
January 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I got my MA at University of Limerick in History of Family yesterday. So pleased to be done and very proud of all of my peers. Time to decide what's next!
This is the energy that I'm looking to bring to 2025
January 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is the energy that I'm looking to bring to 2025
At King's Cross station there's something far more magical than Platform 9 3/4. Just next door in the Family Waiting Room is a pressed penny machine that has an out-of-service sign but actually works if you put the coins in while pushing the slot in slightly, and turning the wheel quickly.
December 28, 2024 at 2:15 PM
At King's Cross station there's something far more magical than Platform 9 3/4. Just next door in the Family Waiting Room is a pressed penny machine that has an out-of-service sign but actually works if you put the coins in while pushing the slot in slightly, and turning the wheel quickly.
Back in the Glasgow Archives for the first time since finishing my dissertation. It feels like being reunited with a long-lost friend.
December 24, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Back in the Glasgow Archives for the first time since finishing my dissertation. It feels like being reunited with a long-lost friend.
And here's a photo of my gorgeous boy enjoying the sunset near Loch Rannoch, contemplating Andrew Carnegie's legacy and his dueling roles in the United States and Scotland. 7/7
December 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
And here's a photo of my gorgeous boy enjoying the sunset near Loch Rannoch, contemplating Andrew Carnegie's legacy and his dueling roles in the United States and Scotland. 7/7
We also went to Loch Rannoch, to see the Scottish lodge where Carnegie holed up during the strike (while furiously sending telegrams and letters from Pitlochry to Frick encouraging him to bust the union by any means necessary). 5/
December 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
We also went to Loch Rannoch, to see the Scottish lodge where Carnegie holed up during the strike (while furiously sending telegrams and letters from Pitlochry to Frick encouraging him to bust the union by any means necessary). 5/
One such example was the 1892 Homestead steel strike in Pennsylvania. I went on this Carnegie tour of Scotland with @tammyhepps.bsky.social, Homestead historian, who told me the backstory, detailing Carnegie's role in the union busting that left workers dead in a riot involving 300 Pinkertons. 3/
December 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
One such example was the 1892 Homestead steel strike in Pennsylvania. I went on this Carnegie tour of Scotland with @tammyhepps.bsky.social, Homestead historian, who told me the backstory, detailing Carnegie's role in the union busting that left workers dead in a riot involving 300 Pinkertons. 3/
Espousing something akin to effective altruism, Carnegie believed that industrialists should accumulate maximum wealth which they could redistribute into the community. It was a paternalistic view of the world, and one he used to excuse extraction of wealth from workers in the United States. 2/
December 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Espousing something akin to effective altruism, Carnegie believed that industrialists should accumulate maximum wealth which they could redistribute into the community. It was a paternalistic view of the world, and one he used to excuse extraction of wealth from workers in the United States. 2/
I just went to the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum in Dunfermline, where he's considered something of a hometown hero. He was a major philanthropist and generous benefactor to causes around the world, but also a union buster and rapacious factory owner whose employees lived in near poverty. 🗃️ 1/
December 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
I just went to the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum in Dunfermline, where he's considered something of a hometown hero. He was a major philanthropist and generous benefactor to causes around the world, but also a union buster and rapacious factory owner whose employees lived in near poverty. 🗃️ 1/
An 1899 article described an "energetic Scotsman" James Seves Hosie, who arrived in Melbourne in the 1850s with little in the way of capital but ended up making a fortune off his threepenny Scotch pies. He became something of a real estate magnate off the back of his Scotch pie earnings. 4/
December 7, 2024 at 12:16 PM
An 1899 article described an "energetic Scotsman" James Seves Hosie, who arrived in Melbourne in the 1850s with little in the way of capital but ended up making a fortune off his threepenny Scotch pies. He became something of a real estate magnate off the back of his Scotch pie earnings. 4/
After this blow-out meal, Scotch pies started appearing in the Scottish community in Australia and New Zealand in the 1860s. This advertisement from Nelson, New Zealand 1879 is for the "Colonial Scotch Pie Shop" which invites, a little hopefully, "Country Friends always Welcome" 3/
December 7, 2024 at 12:16 PM
After this blow-out meal, Scotch pies started appearing in the Scottish community in Australia and New Zealand in the 1860s. This advertisement from Nelson, New Zealand 1879 is for the "Colonial Scotch Pie Shop" which invites, a little hopefully, "Country Friends always Welcome" 3/
Here, at Mr. LeGeyt's table (apparently the meat-n'-tatties table compared to the others) oyster pattees, cotelettes d'Agneau, were served alongside what were called Scotch pies, which I assume were mutton pies. The reporter left the dinner in a huff, and the resulting article is quite snarky. 2/
December 7, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Here, at Mr. LeGeyt's table (apparently the meat-n'-tatties table compared to the others) oyster pattees, cotelettes d'Agneau, were served alongside what were called Scotch pies, which I assume were mutton pies. The reporter left the dinner in a huff, and the resulting article is quite snarky. 2/
Jack has a huge file at the National Archives, which I hope to examine in the future, but they seem to pertain mostly to his later criminal exploits. This is one of those genealogy mysteries that may be solved in time, when more records come online or otherwise become available. 7/7
November 22, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Jack has a huge file at the National Archives, which I hope to examine in the future, but they seem to pertain mostly to his later criminal exploits. This is one of those genealogy mysteries that may be solved in time, when more records come online or otherwise become available. 7/7