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'''Israel Gutman''' (1923-) is a Polish-born [[Israel]]i historian of the [[Holocaust]].<ref>http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/Ringelblum/Ringelblum_Gutman.htm</ref> |
'''Israel Gutman''' (1923-) is a Polish-born [[Israel]]i historian of the [[Holocaust]].<ref>http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/Ringelblum/Ringelblum_Gutman.htm</ref> |
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Israel Gutman was born in [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]]. After playing an important role in the [[Warsaw Ghetto uprising]], he was deported to [[Majdanek]], [[Auschwitz]] and [[Mauthausen]]. <ref>http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html</ref> |
Israel Gutman was born in [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]]. After playing an important role in the [[Warsaw Ghetto uprising]], he was deported to [[Majdanek]], [[Auschwitz]] and [[Mauthausen]]. <ref>http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html</ref> His older sister died in the ghetto. <ref>http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html</ref> |
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After two years in the camps, he was hospitalized in Austria. He managed to escape and join the [[Jewish Brigade]] in Italy. <ref>http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html</ref> |
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When the war was over, he immigrated to Israel. He became a professor of history at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], chairman of the Scientific Council of [[Yad Vashem]] in [[Jerusalem]] and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council. Gutman was the editor-in-chief of the [[Encyclopedia of the Holocaust]]. <ref>http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html</ref> He is an advisor to the Polish government on Jewish Affairs, Judaism and Holocaust Commemoration. <ref>http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html</ref> |
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Gutman was a member of Kibbutz |
Gutman was a member of Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan for 25 years. <ref>http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html</ref> |
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Today he lives in Jerusalem. |
Today he lives in Jerusalem. |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
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Revision as of 15:10, 29 April 2008
Israel Gutman (1923-) is a Polish-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust.[1]
Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After playing an important role in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he was deported to Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen. [2] His older sister died in the ghetto. [3]
After two years in the camps, he was hospitalized in Austria. He managed to escape and join the Jewish Brigade in Italy. [4] When the war was over, he immigrated to Israel. He became a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, chairman of the Scientific Council of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council. Gutman was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. [5] He is an advisor to the Polish government on Jewish Affairs, Judaism and Holocaust Commemoration. [6]
Gutman was a member of Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan for 25 years. [7] Today he lives in Jerusalem.
Awards
Gutman won the Salonika Prize for Literature, the Yitzhak Sadeh prize for Military Studies, and the Polish Unification Prize.[8]
Published work
- Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising[9]
References
- ^ http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/Ringelblum/Ringelblum_Gutman.htm
- ^ http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html
- ^ http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html
- ^ http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html
- ^ http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html
- ^ http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html
- ^ http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html
- ^ http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2008/exhibition/gutman.html
- ^ http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/details.php?content=1994-01