Hadassa (Dasia) Braun Kahane (now Dasia Black-Gutman) was born in Rzeszow, Poland in 1938, to her parents Chana and Szulem Kahane. Following Hitler's invasion of Poland, the family escaped to eastern Galicia and were later confined to the Zbaraz ghetto. Black-Gutman was smuggled out of the ghetto and survived the war by posing as Aryan Catholic child. Both her parents were killed.
Following World War II, Black-Gutman lived with her father's cousin. Her adoptive family moved from Poland to Czechoslovakia and then to the American zone of West Germany. They spent five years in a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart before migrating to Australia in 1951.
Black-Gutman graduated from the University of Sydney and later became a lecturer in Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University. In 2018, she published Zbaraz: A Community Extinguished, an account of her search for information on what might have happened to her parents, knowing they were killed in the Holocaust but no more specific information than that.
