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Translation of
Kitever yisker-bukh
Editor: E. Husen
Published in New York 1958
Our sincere appreciation to Rhoda Kuflik
We wish to thank Genia Hollander for typing
up the English text to facilitate its addition to this project
and to
Sondra Ettlinger for extracting the pictures
from the original book, enabling their addition to the project.
This is a translation of: Kitever yisker-bukh (Kitever memorial book),
Editor: E. Husen, Kitever Sick and Benevolent Society in New York, Published: New York 1958 (Y 240 pages)
Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Kuty (1958)
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In Three Parts: | |
First Part: | The Life and Work of the Kittever Jews |
Second Part: | The History of the Destruction |
Third Part: | The Names of the Martyrs |
New York, 1958
Published by the Kittever Sick and Benevolent Society in New York
All Rights Reserved
This material is protected by U.S. copyright law. © Rhoda Kuflik, 2022
Translated from the Yiddish by Stanley Scheindlin. D.Sc.
Preface | |
First Part: The History of Kittev | |
Kittev and its (her) landscape | 13 |
The history of Kittev | 16 |
Kittev between the two World Wars | 19 |
Historic personalities and spiritual leaders | 23 |
Kittever synagogues and houses of study (batei midrashim) | 36 |
Jewish livelihoods in Kittev after World War I | 39 |
Jewish life in Kittev after World War I | 43 |
Sabbath holidays and life-style | 48 |
Family festivities of Kittever Jews | 60 |
Kittever strong men | 63 |
Kittever nicknames and types | 67 |
Polish Jewry before World War II | 73 |
The German invasion of Poland | 81 |
Second Part: The Destruction | |
Kittev under Soviet occupation | 89 |
The destruction | 105 |
Kittev after the departure of the Soviet army | 107 |
The pogrom in Yablonitse | 110 |
Kittev under the Romanian & Hungarian occupation | 112 |
Kittev under the German occupation | 114 |
The first Kittever Yudenrat | 117 |
The tragedy of the Jewish refugees from Hungary | 121 |
The German tax bureau | 123 |
The Yudenrat | 127 |
The extermination of the Jewish intelligentsia in Stanislav | 132 |
The first Yuden action in Kolomei | 134 |
The Yuden action in Kossov | 135 |
Yuden action in the nearby cities and towns | 145 |
The Yuden action in Zablatov | 149 |
The Yuden action in Zshabieh | 151 |
The last weeks before the Yuden action in Kittev | 152 |
The last bloody final day of Passover (Achron shel Pesach) in Kittev | 158 |
The death-march | 163 |
The final road | 167 |
The dead city Kittev- without Jews | 171 |
Third Part: The Names of the Martyrs (Holy Ones) | |
Final word | 204 |
First Kittever support association in New York | 206 |
10-Year anniversary of the Kittever Ladies’ Relief Auxiliary | 218 |
A Letter to the Author from the President of the Kittever Assoc. of N.Y. | 221 |
Kittever Pictures Section | |
Afterword by the Author’s Daughter, Rhoda Kuflik |
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