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AB - Obituary Israel Gutman, Holocaust survivor, distinguished historian, and member of the editorial board of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, died on October 1, 2013 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 90 years old. Born in Warsaw in 1923, Gutman was a member of the youth Zionist movement Hashomer Hatzair. After the German conquest of Poland he and his family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, where his parents and older sister died. Gutman participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943. In an interview with Yad Vashem, he recalled taking charge of security for a bunker for wounded fighters. He and his group at one point exchanged fire with Nazi forces, shooting one of the soldiers. Gutman suffered an eye injury from a grenade thrown by another of the German soldiers. After the ghetto fell, Gutman was captured and deported to the Majdanek extermina- tion camp. He was later transferred to Auschwitz, where he became involved in under- ground resistance. In January 1945 he was part of a death march of prisoners to Mauthausen, but survived and was liberated there in May. He then tried to help other survi- vors reach Palestine, and he went there himself in 
TI - In Memoriam: Israel Gutman
JF - Holocaust and Genocide Studies
DO - 10.1093/hgs/dct046
DA - 2013-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/in-memoriam-israel-gutman-R1vF7koskm
SP - 561
EP - 561
VL - 27
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -