Kuty, Ukraine

My Life in Kuty: A Shtetl Destroyed
(Kuty, Ukraine)

48°15' / 25°11'

Author: Abraham Klein

Published in 2003

Acknowledgments

Our sincere appreciation to Genia Hollander
for typing up the English text to facilitate its addition to this project.

This is My Life in Kuty: A Shtetl Destroyed
Author: Abraham Klein, December 2003 (E 221 pages)

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Acknowledgments

I could not have written my story without the encouragement of my two sons, Marc and William, who repeatedly urged me to put down on paper what I had recounted to them so many times.

When, at last, I began to write, I found it to be an even more difficult task than I had expected. I could not have done it without the invaluable assistance of my son William. He was forced to decipher my now shaky handwriting, then type my manuscript and also serve as my trusted editor.

To both my sons, all my thanks.

Introduction	1
Short history and geography	2
World War I	5
The first post W.W.I. years in Kuty	10
The Cheder Years	19
The Epidemic	22
Kuty in the 1920’s	24
Kuty between the two wars	31
Economics	34
Synagogues	37
Religious holidays	39
Religious, cultural and charity groups	58
Hebrew schools	63
Kolomyja, gymnasium years and vacations	72
First months in Kuty under the Russian-Soviets	114
The German attack (1941)	126
Occupation under the Germans, massacres & deportation	132
Escape to Czernowitz	150
Reflections on my flight to Czernowitz	159
Czernowitz under the Rumanians	162
Czernowitz under the Soviets	175
Return to Poland then France	188
Postscript	195
The Three R’s: (Regrets, Reminiscences and Reflections)	200

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