Jan Gorbaty was born in Russian Empire, 1915 to Malka. He was a pianist and married to Dusia. Prior to WWII he lived in Warszawa, Poland. Jan survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.