Holocaust Survivors Reflect: Pinchas Gutter

Mr. Pinchas Gutter was born in Łódź, Poland in 1932. He was seven when the Second World War began. Mr. Gutter, his twin sister, and his mother, fled disguised as Christians to their aunt in Warsaw. His father followed. The family were incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto for three and a half years. When the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began in April 1943, the family hid in a bunker for three weeks before the Nazis discovered them and deported them to Majdanek death camp. The Nazis murdered Mr. Gutter’s father, mother and twin sister on arrival. The Nazis selected Mr. Gutter for slave labour. He survived Majdanek, five other concentration camps including Buchenwald, and a death march from Germany to Czechoslovakia, where he was liberated in 1945 by Soviet troops. He was 13 years old. Under the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Mr. Gutter was taken to England with other child Holocaust survivors to rehabilitate. Mr. Gutter is married to Dorothy, and their family now spans three generations.