Yekhiel Glikshtein was born in Zarnowiec, Poland, 1936 to Yisrael Nakhum and Masha. He was child. Prior to WWII he lived in Sosnowiec, Poland. During the war he was in Karczowice, Poland. Yekhiel 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.