Now, watch this clip of testimony from Pinchas Gutter, who describes his recollections of what life was like living in the Warsaw ghetto.
About the Interviewee
Pinchas Gutter was born on July 21, 1932, in Lódz, Poland. Alongside his twin sister Sabina, he grew up in a Hasidic Jewish home. Within a month of the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, the Gutter family, under false Christian identities, moved to Warsaw to avoid danger in their hometown. The family was forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto, where they hid in a bunker during the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. They were eventually discovered and deported to the Majdanek concentration and death camp, where his parents and twin sister were murdered. Pinchas was transferred to forced labor and concentration camps. Pinchas was liberated from Theresienstadt by the Soviet Army in May 1945. Pinchas was interviewed by the Azrieli Foundation on July 12, 2017.