A Holocaust survivor delivering a stirring speech to a packed synagogue in the South end of Saint John during the Holocaust Memorial Day observance.
Pinchas Gutter, now in his early eighties, telling the crowd at the Shaarei Zedek synagogue about his experience being imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto then being deported to a death camp where his parents and twin sister died.
He tells us what he wants is justice, not vengeance, and that he does not believe in the death penalty. He says what you do is make an example of a person found guilty of heinous crimes by putting them into a prison, and say that’s what happens to people who are doing that type of thing, they get locked up for the rest of their lives and they can’t participate with the rest of humanity.
Gutter tells us when he speaks to young people he tells them the most important thing to take away from his story is tolerance.
A film was made about his life called Political, Polish Jew: The Story of Pinchas Gutter.
