Bella Moyiseyevna Gutman was born on July 29, 1914 in Ukraine. She received very good education from an early age, graduated from medical school in ...
- TypeVideo, Testimony
- Collection
- TitleBella Gutman, full unedited interview, 2007
- TypeVideo, Testimony
- Collection
- Interview DateDecember 6, 2007
- InterviewerLeonid Reines
- Interview LocationPalo Alto, USA
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Bella outman was born in 1914 in family of a carpenter. Here she talks about her education and life in the wake of her father's death in 1927.
Gutman describes the last year before the German invasion, her medical training, and how she was mobilised into the army in her third year of medical school, but let go to finish her studies in Kyiv.
Gutman describes the start of the war, how she evacuated from the place where she was doing her medical internship first to Kyiv and then to Tashkent. Her sister and nephews came with her. She graduated from medical school in Samarkand.
Gutman talks about her tour of duty: she served on several fronts as a surgeon and was demobilised in 1946 in Chernivtsi, where she stayed and worked for thirty years afterwards.
Gutman talks about her medical practice at an evacuation hospital, explains what it is, and describes the situation with drugs, wound dressings, and wound treatment.
Gutman talks about the end of the war, weighs in on ethnic relations at the front, and mourns the loss of male members of her family in the war.
Gutman talks about her husband, also a medic, who finished the war in Kaliningrad, and briefly discusses her military decorations.
