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Herta Goldstein Long, a resident of Albuquerque since 1990, died on May 9, 2005 at age 91. She was born in Schokken, Germany on May 3, 1914, and moved with her family to Berlin, Germany in 1922. She was a Holocaust survivor who was hidden in various "safe houses" in Berlin and near Koenigsberg East Prussia, along with her daughter, Evy, through the help of Dr. Elisabeth Abegg, a philosophy professor and her small group of female anti-Nazi university students. Herta and her daughter were liberated by the Russian army during the battle for Koenigsberg near the end of World War II, but were detained by the Russians for nearly four more years. After escaping Russia and making their way back to Berlin, they immigrated to the USA as Displaced Persons, and settled in San Francisco in 1951. Herta retired at age 68 from the University of California as Head of the Office of Financial Aid for the UC School of Medicine. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Ernst Goldstein, who perished in the Auschwitz death camp; by her second husband, Henry Long, who survived the Sachenhausen and Dachau camps, later escaping to Shanghai, China ; and by her granddaughter, Sylvia Rudd, who died in Denver in 2003. She is survived by her loving and caring daughter, Evy Woods and son-in-law, John Woods of Albuquerque; her granddaughter, Robin Woods in Moscow, ID; her great-grandsons, Spenser and Greyson Rudd in Denver, CO; and by her "adopted daughter", Ellen Robinson of Cedar Crest, NM. Herta "Omi" Long was an extraordinary person of the highest integrity. She leaves extended family and friends in California, Albuquerque, Switzerland, and Israel, as well as friends and descendants of her family's remarkable rescuers in Germany during World War II. We will miss her wisdom, intelligence, steadfastness, and generosity. Special thanks to the loving and caring staff at Sunrise Assisted Living in Albuquerque, and to the staff of Preferred Hospice. Those wishing to remember Herta may do so with or without donating to favorite charities; or by donating to: Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, 305 Seventh Ave., 19th Floor, New York, NY 10001-6008. Through the goodness of her family's rescuers, a light shown in the darkness for her, Evy, and (briefly) Ernst Goldstein during the dark days of terror in 1943 Berlin.
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