Ludwik Berger, alias 'Goliat’, was born on 13 January 1911 in Zakopane. Son of Adolf and Michalina (née Solecka). Husband of Irena (née Rogowska), Marek’s father. During World War II, he lived in Warsaw. In the tenement house where he lived, he hid people of Jewish origin and delivered weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto. Ludwik Berger died on 22 November 1943 in Warsaw.