גוטמן ‎Gutman, Yisrael

Birth Name גוטמן ‎Gutman, Yisrael

    Guttmann גוטמן is a Jewish-German family name, which means Good Man איש טוב.

Birth Name גוטמן, ישראל
Call Name ישראל
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 1923 Warszawa Warsaw, województwo Mazowieckie, Polska  

 
Military Action   Powstanie w getcie Warszawskim Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Warszawa, województwo Mazowieckie, Polska  

Event Note

Yisrael Gutman's parents and older sister perished in the Warszawa Ghetto Getto warszawskie.
His younger sister was a member of Janusz Korczak's orphanage.

Event Note

Yisrael Gutman was wounded.

 
Transport May 5, 1843 Majdanek Kriegsgefangenenlager, Lublin, województwo lubelskie, Polska Yisrael Gutman was removed from the bunker when he was wounded in the Warzawa Ghetto

 
Camp   Auschwitz Konzentrationslager, Oświęcim, powiat Oświęcimski, województwo Małopolskie, Polska  

Event Note

In May, 1945, Yisrael Gutman was sent on the death march to Mauthausen.
In total, Yisrael Gutman spent two years in the camps.

Event Note

In total, Yisrael Gutman spent two years in the Nazi concentration camps.

 
Military Service   בריחה Bricha  

Event Note

Yisrael Gutman escaped from the hospital in Austria, and joined the Jewish Brigade in Italy.

Event Note

Yisrael Gutman helped in the rehabilitation of survivors, and was active in Bricha בריחה.

 
Aliyah 1946    

 
Boat 1946    

 
Membership   קיבוץ להבות הבשן kibbutz Lahavot haBashan, הגליל העליון, הצפון, ישראל  

 
Occupation   האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ירושלים, הרי יהודה, ישראל Professor Yisrael Gutman, a world-renowned scholar of Holocaust studies, has dedicated his life to studying the Holocaust and perpetuating its lessons for the next generations

 
Honor     Yisrael Gutman was awarded the Salonika Prize for Literature, the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Studies, and the Polish Unification Prize

 

Narrative

Holocaust Survivor Describes Ghetto and Death Camp

Pedigree

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