Yehoshua Ziutek Goldblum was born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1923 to Mordekhai and Chana. He was a pupil and teenager. Prior to WWII he lived in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. During the war he was in Buchenwald, Germany. Yehoshua Ziutek 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.