Israel Gutman

Israel Gutman (; 20 May 1923 – 1 October 2013) was a Polish-born Israeli historian and a survivor of the Holocaust.

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. His parents and siblings died in the ghetto. 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.

Published works The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt (1982) Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews in World War Two (1986) The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars (1989) Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp (with Michael Berenbaum, 1994) Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1994) Emanuel Ringelblum – The Man and the Historian (2006)