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==Life and career==
Jean-Pierre Grumbach was born in 1917 in Paris, France, the son of Berthe and Jules Grumbach.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lisa90.org/lisa1/genealogies/tree_hor.php?lang=fr&n_tr=2 |title=Arbre |publisher=Lisa90.org |access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref> His family were [[History of the Jews in Alsace|Alsatian Jews]]. His father was a rag merchant; the family lived in ninth-[[Arrondissement|arrondissmentarrondissement]] of Paris. His eldest brother Jacques wrote for the Socialist Party weekly [[Le Populaire (French newspaper)|Le Populaire]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Shatz |first=Adam |date=20 June 2019 |title=Who does that for anyone? |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n12/adam-shatz/who-does-that-for-anyone |journal=London Review of Books |volume=41 |issue=12 |issn=0260-9592 |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref>
 
Grumbach left school at 17 working as a courier and then a wedding photographer. In 1937 he joined the Communist Party, but left in 1939 over the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact|Hitler-Stalin Pact]].<ref name=":0" />