Editing René Goscinny (section)

==Early life==
Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to [[Jews|Jewish]] immigrants from Poland.<ref name="obs">{{cite web | last = Garcia|first= Laure|work =Le Nouvel Observateur | title = Uderzo, le dernier Gaulois | url = http://hebdo.nouvelobs.com/hebdo/parution/p2136/articles/a280131-uderzo__le_dernier_gaulois.html|language=fr}}</ref> His parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, a chemical engineer from [[Warsaw]], and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna from Chodorków (modern-day {{ill|Khodorkiv|uk|Ходорків}}), a small village near [[Kyiv]] in [[Ukraine]].<ref>According to Yeruham Eniss, the village had a soap factory, and many Jews of nearby Chodorków had jobs selling and trading in soap. A census made in the late 1930s counted 3670 Jewish families in Chodorków before [[World War II]] ([[ShtetLinks]] website: alternate spellings include Chortkow and Khodorkiv)</ref>{{full citation needed|date=December 2023}} Goscinny's maternal grandfather, Abraham Lazare Berezniak, founded a printing company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wild-adventures-of-rene-goscinny-jewish-inventor-of-asterix-and-obelix/|title=The wild adventures of René Goscinny, Jewish inventor of Asterix and Obelix|website=[[The Times of Israel]] }}</ref> Claude, Goscinny's older brother, was six years older, born on 10 December 1920.

Stanisław and Anna had met in Paris and married in 1919. When René was two, the Gościnnys moved to [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], because his father had been hired as a chemical engineer there. René had a happy childhood in Buenos Aires and studied in French-language schools there. He was often the "class clown", probably to compensate for a natural shyness. He started drawing very early on, inspired by the illustrated stories which he enjoyed reading.

In December 1943, the year after Goscinny graduated from lycée or high school, his father died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] (stroke). The youth had to go to work. The next year, he got his first job as an assistant accountant in a tyre recovery factory. After being laid off the following year, Goscinny became a junior illustrator in an advertising agency.<ref name="lambiek">{{cite web | last = Lambiek Comiclopedia | title = René Goscinny | url =http://lambiek.net/artists/g/goscinny.htm}}</ref>

Goscinny, along with his mother, emigrated from Argentina and immigrated to New York, United States in 1945 to join her brother, Boris. To avoid service in the [[United States Armed Forces]]{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} he travelled to France to join the [[French Army]] in 1946. He served at [[Aubagne]] in the 141st Alpine Infantry Battalion. Promoted to senior [[corporal]], he became the appointed artist of the regiment and drew illustrations and posters for the army.