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Israel Gutman (Hebrew: ישראל גוטמן; 20 May 1923 – 1 October 2013) was a Polish-born Israeli historian and a survivor of the Holocaust.^[1]

Biography

Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in Warsaw, Second Polish Republic. After participating and being wounded in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps.^[2] His parents and siblings died in the ghetto.^[3] In January 1945, he survived the death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, where he was liberated by U.S. forces. In the immediate post-war period, he joined the Jewish Brigade in Italy.^[3] In 1946, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and joined KibbutzLehavot HaBashan, where he raised a family. He was a member of the kibbutz for 25 years.^[3] In 1961, he testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.^[3]

Academic career

Gutman was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem a Biography of isaac.