[1] Once France fell, his situation became perilous but it was three years before he was detected by the Vichy French authorities and deported to Germany.

[1] Along with Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel (described in his book Night), Goldstein survived the death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald.

When Buchenwald was partly evacuated by the Nazis on 8 April 1945, Communist inmates stormed the watchtowers, killed the remaining guards and took control.

[1] In 2001, Mr. Goldstein along with Peter Gingold, another Holocaust survivor, began a class action lawsuit in America suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim that both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labor during the Second World War [citation needed].

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.