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Bernard Goldstein, Leader of Warsaw Ghetto, Dead; Funeral Today

December 9, 1959
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Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Bernard Goldstein, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto underground during the Second World War. who died here Monday at the age of 70. A volume of Mr. Goldstein’s memoirs in Yiddish was published here only two weeks ago. Born in Poland, Mr. Goldstein was active from early youth in the Jewish Labor Bund in that country. He came to the United States in 1946 under the sponsorship of the Jewish Labor Committee. An English translation of his Yiddish work “Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto,” was published in 1949 under the title “The Stars Bear Witness.”

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