1. Pinchas Gutter is one of the pioneers of an innovative project called Dimensions in Testimony in which a life-sized interactive biography will be wheeled into classrooms, lecture halls and museums.
10 Facts About Pinchas Gutter
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Pinchas Gutter himself suffered a beating by a German guard, but survived and was then sent to a nearby labor camp, where he was part of a crew that manufactured mines and ammunition for the German army.
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Pinchas Gutter lived in Brazil and South Africa before immigrating to Canada in 1985.
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Pinchas Gutter was the first person to test-drive the new technology.
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Pinchas Gutter had to wear the same clothes and sit in the same position to maintain the continuity of the project.
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For several years, USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director, Stephen D Smith and Gutter developed a friendship of trust in which they explored the life that resides in Gutter's memory.
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Pinchas Gutter took Smith into the world of the Gerrer Hassidim of Lodz, through the Warsaw ghetto uprising, to Majdanek and Terezin, London, Paris and Jerusalem.
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Dow Marmur, rabbi emeritus at Toronto's Holy Blossom Temple said in his review in The Toronto Star that the film demonstrates that Pinchas Gutter has harnessed his ordeal to the noble cause of tikun olam, the idea that Jews bear responsibility not only for their own moral, spiritual, and material welfare, but for the welfare of society at large.
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In 2019, Pinchas Gutter himself dubbed the Virtual Reality film into five new languages with the intent of bringing the film to global audiences in 2020.
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Pinchas Gutter wrote a letter about how it's much easier for him to accept, to live in the future because I have given him another Weltanschauung, another world view.