Pinchas Gutter (M / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor

Pinchas Gutter (M / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor.

• KEYWORDS : <Warsaw Ghetto> <Majdanek> <Skarzysko-Kamienna> <KZ Czestochowa> <Buchenwald> <Death March> <Theresienstadt> <Liberation of Theresienstadt> / <England> <Windermere Children>

• MEMOIRS : Memoirs in Focus (2017)

Biography

Pinchas Gutter was born in Lodz, Poland in 1932, to Chaja and Menachem and Chaja Gutter. He had a twin sister, Sabrina.

The family was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto until the 1943 Uprising. They were deported to Majdanek.

The only survivor of his family, Pinchas was sent to KZ Skarzysko-Kamienna, KZ Czestochowa, Buchenwald, and Colditz.

He then endured a death march to Theresienstadt, where he was liberated.

In August 1945 he went to England as one of the Windermere Children.

In 1952, he enlisted in the Israeli army. He lived in Brazil and South Africa before settling in Canada in 1985.

Book : Memoirs in Focus (2017)

As ten-year-old Pinchas is deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek and then to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to become almost invisible. But after liberation, his photographic memory won't let his past fade away, and Pinchas struggles to deal with nightmares and flashbacks while trying to raise a family and heal his emotional scars.

Memories in Focus vividly retells Pinchas's painful journey, describing the separation from his parents and twin sister, his struggle to stay alive under the cruelest of circumstances and the luck and moments of kindness that enabled him to survive.