Joseph Goldwasser was born c. 1919 grew up in Łódź, Poland, in a family of 10 children.
He spent World War II in Russia, including a year inside a Gulag.
He ran a tire business called "Trey Packing"[2] in an old synagogue.
[3][4] Goldwasser often employed African Americans who moved from the Southern United States.
[3] He was a member of the NAACP's Cleveland branch, and launched an unofficial investigation on the lynching of Robert Mallard.