Chaim Itsl Goldstein
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Chaim Itsl Goldstein, Charles Goldstein, born in Warsaw. He was a worker and leftist activist, emigrated 1930 to Paris. During WWII arrested and transported to Auschwitz concentration camp, in October 1943 to Warsaw, where he worked in Warsaw Ghetto ruins, after the fall of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Liberated during Warsaw Uprising participated in it, after its fall he was hiding in a bunker in completely destroyed and deserted Warsaw, like the famous The Pianist Władysław Szpilman. His memoirs Zibn in bunḳer (Eng. Seven in the bunker) known also as The Bunker have been published in Yiddish, Hebrew, English, French and Polish, frequently quoted.
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- Reuben Ainsztein: "The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt", New York:Holocaust Library, 1979
