Maxmilian Goldberger passed away in May 1970, his death was even mentioned in the only permitted Jewish press in the country, the Vestnik. Read the eulogy that was delivered for him.
On May 5th of this year, after a long illness, brother Maxmilián Goldberger died at the age of 73 and was buried on May 12th of this year with great attendance at the Jewish cemetery in Prague Strasnice.
Brother Teichner, a member of the Synagogue Council Committee in Usti nad Labem, said goodbye to the deceased with these words:
Dear mourners!
We stand in deep sorrow over the coffin of our brother Maximilián Goldberger and in these moments of tender farewell we would like to thank him from the bottom of our hearts for his tireless work and care, which he spent for many years for the welfare of the Jewish religious community in Osti nad Labem.
Brother Goldberger joined the foreign resistance for the freedom of our homeland already during World War I. and did the same again during World War II. After his return to the liberated homeland, he settled in Ústí nad Labem, and it is no exaggeration to say that he played a major role in the fact that here, on the ruins of the Jewish community completely destroyed by the Nazis, a Jewish religious community grew up again, which became the leading community in northern Bohemia.
A long-term illness prevented brother Goldberger from continuing to develop his activities for our Jewish religious community in recent years, but his thoughts and his wishes, springing from a pure heart, accompanied it constantly. In these days we remember our men who either died in Terezin or passed through Terezin on the way to the Nazi extermination camps. It was the work of our deceased brother Goldberger that a worthy monument was erected in the Theresienstadt cemetery in memory of these our brothers and sisters.
For all that brother Goldberger did for our religious community, we thank him warmly with a fervent wish that the land in which we now lay him to eternal rest, the land for whose freedom he fought, may be light and soft.
Why do you think one of the leading figures of the Jewish community in Ústí nad Labem was buried in Prague?