Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt –biographie

Leo Goldstein was born in Berlin on June 11, 1925. His father Moses Goldstein was a painter and decorator; his mother Therese Goldstein, née Gross, was a dressmaker. The family lived at Franseckystraße 54 (now Sredzkistraße) in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Leo Goldstein was already visually impaired as a child. At the age of five, he started school at the Jewish elementary school at Rykestraße 53. Only a few months later, in December 1931, he switched to the 2nd School for the Visually Impaired on Stralsunder Straße in the Wedding district. His father died in 1938.
Leo Goldstein worked as an unskilled laborer in Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind. On January 12, 1943, the 17-year-old was deported with his 64-year-old mother to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and murdered there. Their apartment was cleared on May 9, 1943. Its contents were impounded and sold, with the proceeds going to the Berlin-Brandenburg financial authorities. A Stolperstein memorial stone has been installed in memory of Leo Goldstein outside the building at Sredzkistraße 54 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.