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Dennis guttman son of ludwig guttmann biography

          Inspiring doctor who saved other Jews like him from the Nazi clutches, before fleeing Germany, created the Paralympic games after World War II.

        1. Dr Ludwig Guttman was a highly respected Jewish neuro surgeon living in Nazi Germany.
        2. He arrived in Oxford, England, on 14 March with his wife, Else Samuel Guttmann, and their two children: a son, Dennis, and a daughter, Eva, aged six.
        3. This article is based on Guttmann's unpublished autobiography and 25 years of personal experience.
        4. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Tost, Upper Silesia, Germany in Ludwig Guttmann was the eldest of four children and the only boy.

          5. He arrived in Oxford, England, on 14 March with his wife, Else Samuel Guttmann, and their two children: a son, Dennis, and a daughter, Eva, aged six....

          Ludwig Guttmann

          German-British neurologist (–)

          Sir Ludwig GuttmannCBE FRS[1] (3 July – 18 March ) was a German-British[2]neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games.

          A Jewish doctor who fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, Guttmann was a founding father of organized physical activities for people with disabilities.[3][4][5][6]

          Early life

          Ludwig Guttmann was born on 3 July to a German Jewish family, in the town of Tost, Upper Silesia, in the former German Empire (now Toszek in southern Poland), the son of Dorothy (née Weissenberg) and Bernard Guttmann, a distiller.[7][8][9] When Guttmann was three years old, the family moved to the Silesian city of Königshütte (today Chorzów, Poland).

          In , while volunteering at an accident hospital in Kön