The late David Gold, formerly Goldberger, was best known in Vancouver for his two-storey textile shop, Gold’s Fashion Fabrics, on Granville Street at West 11th Ave.
They lived in Bratislava, Slovakia, but when the Germans moved into the area, they fled to Hungary.
Goldberger was later sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where prisoners were starved and disease swept through the camp.
He and a group of men left for Hanover, where Goldberger bartered with a local textile business for two pieces of cloth, hoping to put his experience in fabrics to use.
The family came to Vancouver in 1948.
Half of the proceeds during the first two weeks of sales of Two Pieces of Cloth: One Family’s Story of the Holocaust will be donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
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