Barry Goldsmith, Who Escaped, Dropped Out and Came Back, Dies at 82
Mr. Goldsmith survived the Holocaust, immigrated to the United States and built a successful career as an architect, before abandoning his life for a commune and then coming home. He died of complications of Covid-19.
Barry Goldsmith, in an undated photograph, survived the Holocaust to become a promising architect in New York City. His life then took some complicated turns.Credit.via Goldsmith family
Jan. 11, 2021
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Tsvi Hirsch Goldschmidt planned to escape alone from the Jewish ghetto in Iwje, Poland, on New Year’s Eve, 1942. News was spreading that the Nazis, who had forced the city’s Jews into the ghetto a year earlier, were planning to liquidate it. But then his youngest son, Dov Baer, began to cry.