Kuty, Ukraine

f Kuty, Ukraine Kitov My Hometown:
Survivors of Kuty Tell the Story of Their Town
(Kuty, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Kitov 'iri: Bene Kuty mesaprim et sipur ha-'ir

Editor: Dr. Chaim Zins

Published in Tel Aviv 1993

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This is a translation of: Kitov 'iri: Bene Kuty mesaprim et sipur ha-'ir
( Kitov my hometown: survivors of Kuty tell the story of their town),
Editor: Dr. Chaim Zins, Hotsa'at “Yair” 'a”sh Avraham Shter, Published: Tel Aviv 1993 (H 285 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Kuty (1993)

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TOC translated by Sara Mages

Introduction		11

History of the City		13
Kuty/Kitev		15

Life		21
The branch of Betar in Kuty	Yakov Guttel (Gotlieb)	23
Kuty - one big family	Norma Dermer (née Weiner)	25
Childhood memories	Arye Hazenfratz	43
Our teacher Yosel Yupiter	Azriel Hirsh	51
Three Chaim	Azriel Hirsh	55
“Young Schmill”	Azriel Hirsh	66
Memories from school	Dora Halper	75
Memories	Yehudit Salzman (from Koren family)	76
The Town: reality and folklore	Yehudit Zalzman	79
Tarbut School	Anya Izhar (née Druckman)	82
The beginning	Berel Luker	83
The early days of Kuty	Rachel Nir	89
The Rabbi of Kosow performs a miracle	Rachel Nir	90
Beloved people	Dunia Rap	91
There was a Jewish town	Henya Sade (née Drechsler)	92
Childhood memories	Chaya Shield	98
The branch of Hashomer Hatzair	Arye Schechter	99
Anecdotes about characters in the town	Yakov Schechter	101
From the town's folklore	Yakov Schechter	108
Kitev the city and its Jews	Yakov Schechter	115
Memories from a vanished way of life	Shmuel Schnibleg	119
Froykele	Shmuel Schnibleg	121
My parents	Yafa Shraga (from the Altman family)	122
Picture section		123

Holocaust		139
Live testimony	Shabtai Avni (formerly Steinbercher)	141
Testimony	Yaakov Altman	143
Sally Rapoport (Oya)	Nehama Braunstein (from Meltzer family)	146
Testimony	Nehama Braunstein (from Meltzer family)	147
Testimony	Landwehr Bronislaw	151
The last day of Pesach 5702	Yaakov Gottel	153
Rabbi Chaim Druckman - Personal Myth	Naomi Golan	155
The only survivor of the Druck family	Itke Druck	156
Testimony	Arie Hozen	158
Memories from the Diaspora	Chaim Hazenfratz	162
Testimony	Shimon Weich	164
Personal testimony	Sigmund Mach	170
Testimony	Victoria Mendel	173
Letter to Jacob Shechter	Dr. Ze'ev Mendel	185
The Tetka (Menashe) Glazberg family	Betty Neuman (from Glazberg family)	186
The great disaster I will never forget	Hana Klinger (from Abush family))	189
Testimony	Atela Rigler (from Zvibach family)	191
The orphan from Kuty	Yitzhak Mendel Reiser	195
Testimony	Menashe Steinbracher	196
Picture section		199

Poems		215
Devouring flame	Malka Locker	217
I want to say Kaddish	Malka Locker	218
Poems from the book The World Is Without a Protector	Malka Locker	219
Between Kosow and Kitve	Itzik Manger	226
Between Kosow and Kitve (Yiddish)	Itzik Manger	228
Kitve 1	Ester Mayevski	230
Kitve 2	Ester Mayevski	232
*	Ester Mayevski	233
*	Ester Mayevski	234
*	Ester Mayevski	235
*	Ester Mayevski	236
A sound that eluded your head	Ester Mayevski	237

Poems from the book “There on the bank of the Cheremosh River”	Yafa Zins, Chaim Zins	238
Hatred		238
Prophecy		240
Sleepless night		242
Separation		243
Slaughter		245
News		247
Fire		248
The death march to Kolomyia		249
The ash of the martyrs of the community of Kolomyia and the surrounding area hy”d		250

The Martyrs		251
List of the Martyrs		254
The Silver Tray		277

Former Residents of Kuty
List of People who Left Kuty after the Shoah		281

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