Faigie Libman:
Ms. Libam is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors from Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. She was raised in a privileged household, the only child of a close-knit family that included her mother, a nurse, and her father, an intellectual. In 1941, at the young age of seven, she and her family were forced to enter the Kovno Ghetto, where they underwent brutal hardships that included Ms. Libman's first experience in a labour camp. When the ghetto was liquidated in 1944, her father was taken to Dachau and the family never saw him again. Mrs Libman and her mother were transferred to the Stuttof Concentration Camp, and then to three slave labour camps, before they were liberated by the Soviet Red Army. They lived in a Displaced Persons Camp in Austria until 1948 before coming to Canada. Ms. Libman and her mother were the only survivors of their entire extended family. (Seneca College Site)
Pinchas Gutter:
Born in Lodz, Poland, he was only seven years old when the war broke out. His family went to Warsaw because they thought it would be safer but ended up being incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto for more than three years. His family was deported to Majdanek. The day they arrived after the horrible journey, his entire family was murdered at the camp. Pinchas was taken to labour camps, including Buchenwald where he was forced to load and unload weights of iron. Pinchas barely survived the death march to Theresienstad.
He was liberated in 1945 and taken to Britain with other children for rehabilitation. Pinchas lived many years in South Africa, then immigrated to Canada in 1985. Since arriving in Canada, Pinchas had dedicated his spare time to caring for the aged, helping the disadvantaged and lecturing on the Holocaust. He served as the Honorary Jewish Chaplain at Toronto Jail and Chaplain at St. Elizabeth Hospital and still serves at the Harold and Grace Baker Home for the Aged. Pinchas was the President of Baycrest Men's Service Group and was honoured as Man of the year by Baycrest in 2001. He lectures on the Holocaust in Toronto, the United States, and South Africa and has participated in the March of Living. He is a member of the committee overseeing help for Holocaust survivors in need at the Jewish Children and Family Services and he is the honourary Cantor in Kiever Synagogue. (Newsontario.ca)
Born in Lodz, Poland, he was only seven years old when the war broke out. His family went to Warsaw because they thought it would be safer but ended up being incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto for more than three years. His family was deported to Majdanek. The day they arrived after the horrible journey, his entire family was murdered at the camp. Pinchas was taken to labour camps, including Buchenwald where he was forced to load and unload weights of iron. Pinchas barely survived the death march to Theresienstad.
He was liberated in 1945 and taken to Britain with other children for rehabilitation. Pinchas lived many years in South Africa, then immigrated to Canada in 1985. Since arriving in Canada, Pinchas had dedicated his spare time to caring for the aged, helping the disadvantaged and lecturing on the Holocaust. He served as the Honorary Jewish Chaplain at Toronto Jail and Chaplain at St. Elizabeth Hospital and still serves at the Harold and Grace Baker Home for the Aged. Pinchas was the President of Baycrest Men's Service Group and was honoured as Man of the year by Baycrest in 2001. He lectures on the Holocaust in Toronto, the United States, and South Africa and has participated in the March of Living. He is a member of the committee overseeing help for Holocaust survivors in need at the Jewish Children and Family Services and he is the honourary Cantor in Kiever Synagogue. (Newsontario.ca)
Links of Interest:
Film Featuring Both Participants & the March of Remembrance and Hope:
- all clips of the film can be found on YouTube
"If they're willing to learn, there is a future." - Faigie Libman
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