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. Dokumentation des heimatgeschichtlichen Forschungsprojekts des Schulverbunds Lesum, das unter Leitung des Lehrers Rolf Rübsam 1985 durchgeführt wurde. 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.Rolf Rübsam: Sie lebten unter uns. Bremen 1988, S. 40–45.
