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28 July 1933 - 11 December 2020
We are saddened to announce the passing of our Dad, Ralph Gutwald, after a long struggle with health issues. Throughout the past few years, he was the epitome of strength, courage, grace, and of course, the stubbornness of his German heritage.
Dad was born in Brux, Republic of Germany in 1933, which later became part of Czechoslovakia. When World War II broke out in 1939, his family was shipped on trains to internment camps with nothing but a suitcase, where they lived in squalor for over a year. There were many years of hardship living in Nazi Germany, including a period living in another camp post-war. The horrors he witnessed left an indelible impression, yet he managed to find ways to be a typical boy, with stories of stealing “artifacts” from sleeping Russians and digging underneath the internment fence into the forest to explore much to his mother’s consternation and worry. And worse, collected and disassembled grenades and other acquir