Eighty-one years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, few survivors are still alive to recount the horrors endured there.
81 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Pinchas Gutter is one of a few Holocaust survivors still alive to recount the horrors endured there.
His family moved to Warsaw, into a small apartment in a bombed-out building that eventually became part of the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, sealed in November 1940 from the rest of the city. "The only answer I can tell you is that I existed," Gutter said. "I existed in the Warsaw ghetto without any feelings, any emotions." He was only 10 years old.But still, the Jews of Warsaw survived. Gutter said his father immediately started making wine, buying grapes on the black market and sending young Pinchas out to collect bottles from cafes and other shops in the ghetto.
"I saw German officers driving through the ghetto with their girlfriends, with their convertible motor cars," Gutter remembered. "They used to take out their revolvers, because officers had revolvers, and they would start shooting people like you hunt animals." He doesn't remember how long the journey was, but instead of going to the extermination center at Treblinka, his group was brought to the Majdanek concentration camp.
His mother, father, and sister all died in gas chambers that day. Though Gutter said he expected the same fate, his story was different. "And he made me bar mitzvah, and he blessed me," Gutter remembered. "And he said, 'with Gd's* help, you will outlive Hitler.'"
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