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Oral history interview with Jechiel Gutman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.62 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0062

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    Oral history interview with Jechiel Gutman

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    Interview Summary
    Jechiel Gutman, born in February 1914 in Poland, discusses his father Chaim and mother; his three brothers and two sisters; having five uncles on his mother’s side; his grandfathers, Chaim and Yitzhak; growing up in a religious home and speaking only Yiddish; attending a cheder for a while and working in a knitting factory at age 16; learning the knitting trade in Czestochowa, Poland and then going to Łódź, Poland to work; bringing his family to Łódź; living in Dundegasse, which was a working area; working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week; working at home making jumpers to sell in the local market; the prevalence of antisemitism and occasionally being beaten up for being Jewish; being forced to work in Germany at the beginning of the war, building a road near Stuttgart; returning to Łódź and living in the ghetto with his family circa 1940; working in a knitting factory and transporting alcohol to men who guarded the ghetto; the two halves of the ghetto, which were connected by two bridges; his wife and sister working in hospitals in the ghetto; his father’s death at age 52 in 1942; being ordered with his family to the train station on August 28, 1944; being taken to Auschwitz; the selections; the deaths of his wife, mother, and sisters; going to Australia after the war; his knitting factory in Australia; and getting remarried and having two children.
    Interviewee
    Jechiel Gutman
    Interviewer
    Geri Kras
    Date
    interview:  1996 July 09

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gutman, Jechiel, 1914-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre conducted the interview on July 9, 1996, in Melbourne, Australia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired the tape of the interview in July 1996.
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    2023-11-16 08:29:23
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