"The execution of capo Beim"
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Nathan Gutman
Biographical History
Nathan Gutman (b.1927 ) was born to a Jewish family in Katowice, Poland. During the Holocaust he was interned in the Krakow-Plaszow, Mauthausen and St. Valentin camps. After World War II he immigrated to Israel where he volunteered for the Israeli Navy. In 1963 he came to the United States to pursue a Mechanical Engineering degree at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Written in 1986, the Museum received copies in Feb. 1991.
Scope and Content
The memoir, "The execution of capo Beim," describes Nathan Gutman's experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland; his internment in Krakow-Płaszów; and his relationship with a kapo in that camp before the Nazis put the kapo to death.
People
- Nathan Gutman
- Gutman, Nathan.
Corporate Bodies
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Kapos.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document