Gutta Sternbuch – memories from a lost world
She lived to be 95 years old. In 2005, she published her memoirs in New York, titled "Gutta: Memories from a Lost World." Her hometown was Warsaw, where she was born on January 22, 1917. She came from a wealthy Jewish family. Her grandfather, Reb Berel Gefen, moved from his native Białystok to the capital. For generations, they had been trading in leather, and Warsaw was an important center of the tanning industry. Berel's grandfather bought leather […]