
Sylvia Ruth Gutmann is an author, public speaker, and contemporary witness. She is a Hidden Child survivor of the Holocaust. Through her speaking engagements, she is committed to the work of memory, healing, and reconciliation. Her work encourages people to shed the guilt and shame of their pasts, and to help us all see our responsibilities to each other. It is her hope that the future will be filled with more love.
She was born in 1939 in Antwerp, Belgium, where her Jewish parents had fled to from Berlin. After living as a Hidden Child in Europe until she was seven, she has lived in numerous cities and now lives in Framingham, MA.
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