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The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh connects the horrors of the Holocaust and antisemitism with injustices of today.

This program was recorded on March 12, 2025.

Alison Brown Karabin shares the story of her grandmother Elizabeth Brown (z"l), a beloved Pittsburgh survivor originally from Hungary. Alison recounts Elizabeth's survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Volary death march, before settling in Squirrel Hill and raising her family. This event is part of a series of programs in 2025, recognizing the 80th anniversary of liberation.

This program was recorded on April 24, 2025.

Join us in person or virtually at our 2026 Yom HaShoah Commemoration on April 13, 2026: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1983897619184?aff=oddtdtcreator

Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the day set aside to remember the approximately six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The Holocaust Center has been holding a community-wide commemoration every year since the establishment of the Center in 1980.

This program was recorded on February 23, 2026.

Jerry Guttman was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932. With his parents' forethought, he managed to escape Hitler’s racial laws, as well as Mussolini’s subsequent antisemitism.

From Italy, the family evacuated to Tangier, Morocco, where Jerry spent his formative years, including his bar mitzvah. He later graduated high school in Milan, Italy, where the family moved after World War II.

At the age of 21, with the Sponsorship of a prominent American Diplomat whom Jerry met in Milan, he was able to emigrate to the United States. Shortly after his arrival, he was drafted into the Army and served during the Korean War. He was later accepted to attend The University of Pennsylvania on the GI Bill.

Jerry built a career and family in Philadelphia, where he lived for many years with his late wife, Avie, before moving to California to be closer to their children. After many years on the West Coast, Jerry moved back to Pennsylvania in 2021.