Holocaust Survivor, 84, Killed By Car in Skokie
Leon Goldberg, 84, died Tuesday after being struck by a vehicle outside Niles North High School. Friends say he would often speak to students about the atrocities he experienced as a survivor of the Holocaust.
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Leon Goldberg, the 84-year-old man who was struck and killed by a vehicle outside Niles North High School on Tuesday, was also a Holocaust survivor, according to close friend Sharon Perlman.
Perlman said Goldberg was placed in a number of concentration camps during WW II. He was also recently honored at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.
"He would often speak to students and educate them about the atrocities he experienced," Perlman said. "I knew Mr. Goldberg for nearly 40 years."
Perlman added that she was very close with his daughter, Lila.
Goldberg was killed after a traffic crash at Lawler Avenue and Grant Street after a vehicle struck Goldberg as he was walking eastbound across Lawler Avenue, in front of Niles North High School, police said.
He was pronounced dead shortly after being transported to North Shore University Health System in Evanston. Goldberg is not affiliated with the high school.
