Memories in Focus by Pinchas Gutter - Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Collection

Memories in Focus by Pinchas Gutter - Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Collection

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  • Epilogue
    In 2002, Pinchas is asked to go back Poland to make a documentary, and ends up connecting with another survivor, Jakub Gutenbaum.
    5 min
  • Chapter 8 – Finding Life Again
    They arrive in Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, where Pinchas works for the Soviet and Czech administration of the camp. He uses horses and a wagon to deliver food to the German prisoners-of-war and SS soldiers who were being held for trial as war criminals.
    32 min
  • Chapter 7 – Becoming a Man
    Eventually, Pinchas is shipped out to a town called Częstochowa where he lands in an iron smelting factory before he is again moved to Buchenwald until the middle of April 1945. He is then made to death march.
    25 min
  • Chapter 6 – A Terrible Existence
    The author arrives in Skarżysko and is sent to the worst campsite where he and the other prisoners are met with cruelty and disgusting living conditions. He also describes the social infrastructure of the camp.
    41 min
  • Chapter 5 – Into the Abyss
    Pinchas and his family are captured and taken to Majdanek. He is separated from his mother and sister, and very soon his father as well. Pinchas describes his few brutal months at the camp.
    18 min
  • Chapter 4 – The Nightmare
    In 1941 conditions worsened and soon people are being deported to Treblinkato to be sent to gas chambers. Pinchas and his family feel the constrictions and survive by hiding until April 19, 1943, the eve of the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto.
    22 min

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Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to become almost invisible. But after liberation, his photographic memory won’t let his past fade away, and Pinchas struggles to deal with nightmares and flashbacks while raising a family and trying to heal his emotional scars. As he journeys from England to France, Israel, Brazil and South Africa, Pinchas searches for belonging before finally finding his true home in Canada. A poignant reflection on suffering, injustice and trauma, Memories in Focus also offers hope and faith in the future.

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