Joseph Goldwasser

Joseph M. Goldwasser ( – ) was a Americanized Polish Jewish businessman. He is known for leading an unofficial investigation in the lynching of Robert Mallard.

Biography Goldwasser was born , in Łódź, and grew up with a family of 10 children. In 1938, when he was 19, he fled to Russia by himself after hearing a warning of the occupation of Poland. He spent World War II in Russia, including a year inside a Gulag. After the war, he fled to Uzbekistan.

Goldwasser later moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and married Draza Goldwasser. He ran a tire business called "Trey Packing", based out of what was once a synagogue. The building later burnt down, and he remodeled it into a department store named the Peerless Department Store. He often employed African Americans who moved from the Southern United States.

Goldwasser died , aged 52, from a heart attack.