Israel Gutman
- Birth Date:
- 20.05.1923
- Death date:
- 01.10.2013
- Person's maiden name:
- ישראל גוטמן;
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Israel Gutman (Hebrew: ישראל גוטמן) (born 1923, Warsaw, died on 1st of October 2013 in Jérusalem, Israel) was a Polish-born Israeli survivor and historian of the Holocaust.
Biography
Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After participating and being wounded in theWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausenconcentration 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.
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. He was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust and won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Studies. At Yad Vashem, he headed the International Institute for Holocaust Research (1993-1996), served as Chief Historian (1996-2000) and has been the Academic Advisor (since 2000). He is also an advisor to the Polish government on Jewish Affairs, Judaism and Holocaust Commemoration.
Published works
- Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp
- The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars
- Emanuel Ringelblum – The Man and the Historian
- Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews in World War Two
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19.04.1943 | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish: אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ; Polish: powstanie w getcie warszawskim; German: Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto) was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. The most significant portion of the rebellion took place from 19 April, and ended when the poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by the Germans, who officially finished their operation to liquidate the Ghetto on 16 May. It was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II.