16 Facts About Edward Mosberg

Edward Mosberg was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor, educator, and philanthropist.

In 2019, Mosberg was awarded Poland's highest civilian honor by Polish President Andrzej Duda, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Edward Mosberg was born in Krakow, Poland, to Bronislawa and Ludwig, and was Jewish.

Edward Mosberg's parents owned a department store, and prayed at the Wolf Popper Synagogue.

In 1939 when Edward Mosberg was 13 years old, Nazi Germany invaded his hometown.

Edward Mosberg witnessed a great number of atrocities committed by SS camp commandant Amon Goth, who was later tried, convicted, and hanged as a war criminal.

Edward Mosberg's mother was killed in an Auschwitz gas chamber, and then her body was sent to its crematorium.

Edward Mosberg was deported a few days later, first to Auschwitz.

Edward Mosberg was then deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, where Mosberg performed slave labor.

Edward Mosberg was then sent to a hospital in Italy to recover from tuberculosis.

Cecile Edward Mosberg, was born in Krakow and had survived Auschwitz.

In 2006, Edward Mosberg donated a Torah that was hidden from the Nazis to the Mount Freedom Jewish Center.

In 2009, Edward Mosberg was one of half a dozen people who met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel.

Edward Mosberg died in New Jersey, at 96 years of age, on September 21,2022.

Duda said Edward Mosberg was a great and brave man both as a Jew and as a Pole, astutely testified about the complex history of the Jews in Poland, and loved Poland.

Edward Mosberg was a Holocaust Survivor, noble man and a great Polish patriot.