Genealogy Yiskor Books

 

 

Dear Friends, We are pleased to present this weekly “window into our treasured past” from Yizkor Books that JewishGen has translated. To learn more about the project, and see if we have a book for your town, please visit https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations/ - The JewishGen Team   Kittever Heroes   At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books in JewishGen's archive. You can find the archive of past Yizkor book excerpts here: https://bit.ly/3aCH1ak. If you are not familiar with the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project, please click on this link: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/faq.html Jews in Kuty, Ukraine, strove to live peacefully with their Polish and Ukrainian neighbors using various methods to counter rising anti-Semitism, but it grew and gradually poisoned the long-lasting peaceful relations between old neighbours. With the establishment in 1918 of the Polish Republic, of which Kuty was then a part,  Polish anti-Semitism passed from words to deeds. “Kittever Heros” from the Yizkor book of that town recounts how three young men organized a self-defence team to repel attackers and take away “their appetite for messing with the Jews.”  It was “woe to the ‘sheigets’ [gentile youths] who fell into the hands of one of the team” after committing acts of hate, whether it was beating Jews or spreading anti-Semitic propaganda. The town is referred to as Kittev in the book, but it is the practice of the Yizkor Book Project to use a town’s current name. It became part of Ukraine in 1991.   You can find the book here: https://bit.ly/3F3Ykiv