Clips from Pinchas Gutter's Testimony

Pinchas Gutter recalls his liberation from Theresienstadt Ghetto

Pinchas Gutter recalls his arrival at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia two weeks prior to his liberation by the Soviet armed forces in 1945. He relates he refused to participate in the mistreatment of the German ghetto guards by Soviet soldiers during the liberation of the ghetto. He remembers the sadness he felt over the mistreatment of anyone even of perpetrators.

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  • Pinchas Gutter's Message to Youth

    Language: English

    In his interactive biography taken in 2014, Pinchas asks today’s youth to be accepting and tolerant of one another.

  • Pinchas Gutter on Fleeing to Warsaw

    Language: English

    Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter describes how he, his mother and sister took the train to Warsaw posing as Christians - which meant that Pinchas's long payos, or sidelocks, needed to be cut. Pinchas describes the experience first in his testimony for the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in 1993, and then in his testimony for USC Shoah Foundation in 1995.

  • Pinchas Gutter recalls his liberation from Theresienstadt Ghetto

    Language: English

    Pinchas Gutter recalls his arrival at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia two weeks prior to his liberation by the Soviet armed forces in 1945. He relates he refused to participate in the mistreatment of the German ghetto guards by Soviet soldiers during the liberation of the ghetto. He remembers the sadness he felt over the mistreatment of anyone even of perpetrators.