of the German navy) for the districts of Vegesack and Kreis Blumenthal. Towards the end of the war and in the year 1919, she was involved in a relief initiative by the Vaterländischen Frauenverein (Patriotic Women's Association), in which food was distributed, primarily to malnourished children. In Lesum at that time, poverty was widespread, particularly in families with many children. The primary employer was the Bremer Woll-Wäscherei (Bremen Wool Laundry), founded in 1872/73 and located opposite Burg station, which was bought up by the Bremer Woll-Kämmerei and decommissioned in 1927. Towards the end of the Weimar Republic, during the period of mass unemployment which followed the crash of 1929, her husband became known entirely as a doctor for the poor and Martha Goldberg started up her "private social care" and her "soup kitchen" again. Martha and Adolph Goldberg had three children, born towards the end of the 1890s: the first born was daughter Getrud, followed by slightly younger twins Käthe and Kurt. The siblings had a happy childhood and youth in Burgdamm. The family belonged to an affluent, bourgeois social class; they had many different social contacts and often traveled; they employed domestic staff such as a housemaid and a nanny, and the children received private tuition at home. Under National Socialism In Bremen and the surrounding area, as in the whole of the Third Reich, Jews were persecuted and discriminated against during the National Socialist era. After the NSDAP came into power in 1933 and after the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, the Goldbergs fell into increasing and in the end total isolation within their living and social environment. As early as 1934, their number of patients had already begun to decrease significantly, although reasons of age also played a role in this. In 1938, Adolph Goldberg lost his medical license according to the "Fourth Decree of the Reich Citizens Act", and had to close his practice. Martha and Adolph Goldberg avoided contact with their friends and acquaintances so that they did not make them "undesirable" or "punishable". In addition, their family situation changed radically during this period of discrimination and persecution of Jews: their son, Kurt, committed suicide. Their oldest daughter, Gertrud, emigrated to Montevideo in Uruguay with her husband, Hans Friedheim, a textile merchant from Nienburg/Weser. Käthe, who had become a nurse due to the influence of her parents, emigrated to South Africa in the autumn of 1937.