Israel Gutman

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Israel Gutman

Birth
Warsaw, Miasto Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
Death
30 Sep 2013 (aged 90)
Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
Burial
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ישראל גוטמן

Alternate spelling of Y'Israel.

Historian and Nazi War Hunter.

Israel Gutman was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council at Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
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Israel Gutman (Hebrew: ישראל גוטמן‎) was a Polish-born Israeli survivor and historian of the Holocaust.

Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After participating and being wounded in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. His parents and siblings died in the ghetto. In January 1945, he survived the death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, where he was liberated by U.S. forces. In the immediate post-war period, he joined the Jewish Brigade in Italy. In 1946, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and joined Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan, where he raised a family. He was a member of the kibbutz for 25 years. In 1961, he testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
ישראל גוטמן

Alternate spelling of Y'Israel.

Historian and Nazi War Hunter.

Israel Gutman was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council at Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
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Israel Gutman (Hebrew: ישראל גוטמן‎) was a Polish-born Israeli survivor and historian of the Holocaust.

Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After participating and being wounded in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. His parents and siblings died in the ghetto. In January 1945, he survived the death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, where he was liberated by U.S. forces. In the immediate post-war period, he joined the Jewish Brigade in Italy. In 1946, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and joined Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan, where he raised a family. He was a member of the kibbutz for 25 years. In 1961, he testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

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