Memories in Focus: A Conversation with Holocaust Survivor, Pinchas Gutter
About the Event
Give your students the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear from and interact with a Holocaust Survivor!
The AHEC is honored and excited to host Holocaust Survivor, Pinchas Gutter, as he speaks live to students and teachers across the state of Alabama.
Join us on October 21, 2025, at 10:00 am CST for this virtual field trip experience!
“I tell my story,” he says, “for the purpose of improving humanity, drop by drop by drop. Like a drop of water falls on a stone and erodes it, so, hopefully, by telling my story over and over again, I will achieve the purpose of making the world a better place to live in.”
Pinchas Gutter
About the Speakers
Pinchas Gutter
Pinchas Gutter was born in Lodz, Poland in 1932. Alongside his twin sister Sabina, he grew up in a religious Jewish community. Within a month of the Nazis’ 1939 invasion of Poland, the Gutter family moved to Warsaw to avoid danger in their hometown. The family was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, where they hid in a bunker during the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. They were eventually discovered and deported to the Majdanek concentration camp, where Pinchas’ parents and sister were murdered. Pinchas was then transferred to forced labor camps in Poland and later to the Buchenwald and Colditz concentration camps in Germany. From Colditz, he was sent on a death march to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Pinchas was liberated from Theresienstadt by the Red Army in May 1945.
After the war, Pinchas lived in the United Kingdom, Israel, and South America. He then immigrated to Toronto, Ontario in 1985, where he currently lives.
Gutter is regularly invited as a keynote speaker in many cities and countries and in schools across the continent. He was also the inaugural participant in USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony project. In June 2025, Gutter was awarded and became a member of the Order of Canada, one of Canada’s highest civilian honors.