Kittever Memorial Book - Hardcover

by Eisig Husen (Author), Rhoda Kuflik (Introduction by), Rachel Kolokoff Hopper (Cover Design by)

In the dreadful summer months of the year 1942, when the German

mass-murderers were each day shooting, burning and gassing

thousands of Polish Jews; in the fateful days - after the Yuden action

in Kittev - when I myself wasn't sure about the next day, I resolved

that as long as I still lived, to record the appalling events. I began to

write the record, the daily events and experiences of Kittev and the

surrounding cities and towns, according to the authentic reports we

received from those places.

One of the main reasons that moved me to record all these bloody

events was my then naïve belief that the great democratic world had

no idea of what was happening, because if they did know what the

Germans were doing, they would surely employ all means to stop

the horrible destruction-work of the Nazis, their murderous actions

against the innocent Jews. All Polish Jews shared this belief, as did the

Jews of our city, Kittev.

Since nobody believed that any Jew could be saved from the bloody

talons of the Nazi evil beast and the Ukrainian murderers, that he

might be able, after the war, to appear as a living witness and accuse

the mass-murderers before the world tribunal, I resolved to make my

modest contribution to the history of the German murder-actions

that they should not be forgotten. I employed every free minute

and wrote down every day what we experienced until the complete

destruction of Kittev and her Jews.

Eisig Husen

April 10, 1958