Victim of Nazis inspires new Brum record label

Broadcaster Goldberg dedicates project to his Aunt Jenny

- JANE HAYNES News Reporter

BIRMINGHAM broadcaster Adrian Goldberg's Aunt Jenny, who was killed in the Holocaust, has become the unlikely inspiration for a new record label in Birmingham after an extraordinary development.

Goldberg’s great aunt, a feather factory owner, was among the millions of Jews who perished under the Nazis during the Second World War.

Now, more than 80 years on, her memory has been revived in the most unlikely way.

For Goldberg is using a small compensation payment belatedly paid to his family by the German government to set up a record label promoting Birmingham bands, with her name in its title: ‘Jenny's Feather Factory'.

Goldberg said: “From how my dad described her - always fun to be around and up for adventure - I think she would be thrilled”.

The unusual story goes back two years, when Goldberg received an email out of the blue from a civil servant in Berlin informing him that his father Rudolph Goldberg had been part of a legal case seeking compensation on behalf of his aunt, who had lived in the city and ran a feather factory.

“My dad had talked about his Aunt Jenny and always described her as great fun, she was the aunt who would go wading in the river with him, would carry him about on her shoulders. And there was always something very unique about her in that she had a feather factory.