AYZIK HUZEN

AYZIK HUZEN (b. October 18, 1904)

            He was born in Kuty (Kitev), Kolomaye region, eastern Galicia.  He studied in religious elementary school, synagogue study hall, and later secular subject matter in a Hebrew school.  He was an active leader in the youth organization Gordonia in eastern Galicia, in the Tarbut school, and in other institutions in Kuty.  He managed to survive the Soviet, Hungarian, Romanian, and German occupation of his town.  He experienced the death march of the last Kuty Jews, saving himself, and in April 1944 traveled across Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany, before arriving in the United States in 1949.  He was the author of Kitever yizker-bukh (Kuty remembrance volume) (New York, 1959), 240 pp., which he began writing in the form of a diary already in 1941.  The book also provides descriptions of the Jewish Actions carried out by the Germans in the cities of Stanislav, Kolomaye, Kosov (Kosów), Zablotov (Zablotow), and Zhabye (Zabie).  He was last living in New York.