Our Holocaust Story

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Jerry & Sy Guttman, children of Holocaust survivors, Irving & Rose Guttman
May 19,  2022

Among the millions of people who were systematically killed and persecuted, as part of the Holocaust, were two — a man and a woman whose vastly different experiences before and during WWII paint vivid pictures of what life was like for a Jewish individual as Hitler rose to and claimed power as one of history’s most formidable dictators.

This one man and this one woman are just two verses to a very long song, but their stories and their survival shed an important light on the brutality of war, the unthinkable grievances of genocide and the hope that springs from knowing and building a life on the other side of it all. It is easier to understand history through the people who lived it. That is why it is important to get to know Irving and Rosie. Jerry & Sy Guttman were just children when they were introduced to the gruesome reality that his parents had survived during World War II.