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Israel Gutman at Adolf Eichmann's trial in 1961

Israel Gutman (Template:Lang-he; 20 May 1923 – 1 October 2013) was a Polish-born Israeli survivor and historian of the Holocaust.[1]

Biography

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.[2] His parents and siblings died in the ghetto.[3] 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.[3] 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.[3] In 1961, he testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.[3]

Academic career

Gutman was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council at Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.[2] He was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust[2] and won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Studies.[3] At Yad Vashem, he headed the International Institute for Holocaust Research (1993–1996), served as Chief Historian (1996–2000) and was the Academic Advisor (from 2000).[3] He was also an advisor to the Polish government on Jewish Affairs, Judaism and Holocaust Commemoration.[3]

He died, aged 90, in Jerusalem, Israel.

Published works

  • Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising[4]
  • Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp[5]
  • The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars[6]
  • Emanuel Ringelblum – The Man and the Historian[7]
  • Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews in World War Two

References

  1. ^ "Let The World Read And Know" The Oneg Shabbat Archives
  2. ^ a b c Notes on the Contributors
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "To Build and To Be Built" The Contribution of Holocaust Survivors to the State of Israel
  4. ^ Academic Publications
  5. ^ Amazon.co.uk: Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp: Yisrael Gutman
  6. ^ Amazon.co.uk: The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars (Tauber Institute): Yisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz, Chone Shmeruk
  7. ^ Yad Vashem Jerusalem - Quarterly Magazine

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