Kittever Memorial Book

<p>In the dreadful summer months of the year 1942 when the German</p><p>mass-murderers were each day shooting burning and gassing</p><p>thousands of Polish Jews; in the fateful days - after the Yuden action</p><p>in Kittev - when I myself wasn't sure about the next day I resolved</p><p>that as long as I still lived to record the appalling events. I began to</p><p>write the record the daily events and experiences of Kittev and the</p><p>surrounding cities and towns according to the authentic reports we</p><p>received from those places.</p><p>One of the main reasons that moved me to record all these bloody</p><p>events was my then naïve belief that the great democratic world had</p><p>no idea of what was happening because if they did know what the</p><p>Germans were doing they would surely employ all means to stop</p><p>the horrible destruction-work of the Nazis their murderous actions</p><p>against the innocent Jews. All Polish Jews shared this belief as did the</p><p>Jews of our city Kittev.</p><p>Since nobody believed that any Jew could be saved from the bloody</p><p>talons of the Nazi evil beast and the Ukrainian murderers that he</p><p>might be able after the war to appear as a living witness and accuse</p><p>the mass-murderers before the world tribunal I resolved to make my</p><p>modest contribution to the history of the German murder-actions</p><p>that they should not be forgotten. I employed every free minute</p><p>and wrote down every day what we experienced until the complete</p><p>destruction of Kittev and her Jews.</p><p>Eisig Husen</p><p>April 10 1958</p>