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S. J. Goldsmith

S. J. Goldsmith, also known as Sam Goldsmith, was a journalist, author, and editor of Lithuanian Jewish heritage in the European Jewish press and English press.

Early life and education
Goldsmith was born in Jonava, Lithuania on April 18, 1910 He graduated from the Hebrew high school ('Schwabes') in Kaunas and from the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. His early career was in the Jewish press of Eastern Europe, writing for the daily Yiddishe Shtimme (The Jewish Voice). From 1934 to 1939 he wrote for Hayntike Nayes (''Today's News''), the paper's evening edition, becoming its editor in 1933. He relocated to London in 1939. ==In England==
In England
From 1939, he reported and wrote op-eds for the Hebrew daily newspaper HaBoker in Tel Aviv, and for the British Sunday paper ''Reynold's News''. As a British war correspondent he was the first journalist to enter the Bergen-Belsen camp after liberation and among the first in Dachau. He covered the Belsen Trial in Lüneburg (1945) and the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6) as a British war-correspondent. Between 1958 and 1975 he served as European editor for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. ==Bibliography==
Personal life
He married Sonia Minsky, economist and teacher, in Kaunas in 1939, and they have one daughter, the British ancient historian, Professor Tessa Rajak. ==Notes==
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