Der Untergang von Kosow und Zabie : zwei Augenzeugenberichte einer Katastrophe

Memoirs of two Jews, an uncle and his nephew, relating the fate of their villages, Kosów and Żabie (now Kosov and Verkhovina in Ukraine) in the Holocaust. Pp. 11-108, by Jehoschua (Kosów, 1886-Israel, 1972), describe life in the "Shtetl" from the end of the 18th century, and relate events in October 1941 when the Gestapo, with the assistance of Ukrainians, murdered 2,200 Jews in Kosów. Several hundred of the remaining Jews, who were kept for forced labor, were arrested in September 1942 and deported to Bełżec. 56 Jews escaped this deportation. Gertner fled to Czernowitz and later reached Palestine. Pp. 109-169, by his nephew Danek (b. 1919), reports on events in Żabie in December 1941, when 800 Jews were murdered, among them his eldest brother. Danek, with his parents and two remaining brothers, hid in Kosów. He was arrested during a roundup and deported, but jumped from the train. He fled to Hungary, was arrested, and escaped again. He then crossed the border into Romania to join his future wife. After the war they settled in Vienna after living in several places, including Brazil. Includes index. 180 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm