Kurt Julius Goldstein

Kurt Julius Goldstein (3 November 1914 – 24 September 2007) was a German journalist and a former broadcast director.

Biography

Goldstein was born to a Jewish merchant family in Dortmund, Germany. At school, he experienced Germany's growing anti-Semitism and it had the effect of politicising him. In 1928, he joined the Young Communist League and two years later, the Communist Party of Germany, then headed by Ernst Thälmann. When the Nazis took power in 1933, Goldstein fled. The case was thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collyer on the grounds that the government cannot be held liable under the principle of state sovereignty.

He was chairman (later an honorary chairman) of the Jerusalem-based International Auschwitz Committee for many years. He died in Berlin.

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