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The object of the book, as of all the other memorial books is as follows:-

(a) To be as a memorial to the martyrs of our town who cruelly and tragically perished with even their burial place unknown.

(b) To describe to the best of our ability, the ways of life; the livings; the manners and the conduct of our parents, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends; as well as the suffering, oppression, humiliation, starvation and the other sadistic tortures which they experienced before their death by the Nazis.

(c) In order that our townsmen, wherever they are, as well as their children and children's children should always remember and never forget the evil the Nazi-Amelek had done to the community of our town Czortkow.

(d) In order that this book may serve as raw material for the historian in the generations to come, who will write the history of the Jews in Europe.

We do not pretend to have attained our aim in full. There is no doubt that many aspects of Jewish life in Czortkow have either not been emphasized enough, or not been touched on in the book at all.

We tried to do our best, however, and the readers of the book have to take into account that the participants in this book were not professional writers but ordinary people to whom we had appealed and asked them to write. We had to accept what they had written and how it was written, except of corrections of language and style.

Likewise it must be clear that the book is not "clean" of errors, mistakes or repetitions in content, as we did not think it proper to delete the few words or passages, when someone mentioned a personality or some event about whom or about which someone else had already written. As for the English section of the book, reluctantly we had to minimize the quantity and publish only a small part of the contents of the book, as it was practically impossible to enlarge the volume apart from the additional cost involved in publishing, which we could not afford.

In conclusion, we express our thanks to all those who participated or extended help to issue the book, either by their contribution in writing or by material help.

May all of them be blessed!

Our friends, members of the Czortkow Association of New York deserve special thanks for their share in the book, as their financial contribution to the Gmiluth Chessed Fund which was ultimately used for the publication of the book, constituted a considerable par of the cost of publication.

May this book be a Monument for the martyrs of our town.

We will never forget what the German, Polish, and Ukrainian murderers did to our families. We will always remember that the whole Christian world looked on apathetically, while our brethren were being massacred and gassed.

We cry out to the Almighty in our ancient prayer: "God, pour out thy wrath upon the nations who have shed the blood of our Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, and Brothers".

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