Karl “Yekhiel” Gutman
Excerpted from Der Hamer, “Der Heldisher Shturm Ongrif fun der Botvin Companie” (“The Heroic Assault of the Botwin Company”), by G. Bogen, November, 1938, Page 17) When the International Brigade leadership decided to create the Jewish Naftali Botwin Company, there was no doubt that Karl Gutman, the 26 year-old weaver from Bialystok, one of the Dombrowski Brigade’s […]