Harry Gold, the son of a cabinetmaker, was born in Bern, Switzerland, on 18th December, 1910. "My mother moved to Switzerland from France, where she had to move from Russia because of her revolutionary activities there. My father fled from Russia in 1903 to escape being drafted into military service." (1)
Gold's family arrived in the United States in 1913 and settled in Philadelphia. His father found work as a cabinetmaker. However, he earned modest wages and was often unemployed. According to one source Gold was brought up "on Philadelphia's grimy South Philip Street, where all the houses had false fronts and dirty narrow backyards." (2)
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