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Israel Gutman - Biography
Israel Gutman (born , Warsaw) is a Polish-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust.
Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After playing an important role in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps.
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His older sister died in the ghetto. After two years in the camps, he was hospitalized in Austria. He managed to escape and join the Jewish Brigade in Italy. In , he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and joined Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan, where he raised a family.
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He was a member of the kibbutz for 25 years. In , he testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Academic career
Gutman was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as the chairman of the Scientific Council of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council.
He was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Israel Gutman is an advisor to the Polish gove