Family Members Killed in the Shoah

• Aaron Keusch

  My uncle and Taube Bloch Keusch is my aunt, my father’s brother and sister.

• Aaron Keusch (Kaish) אהרון קויש (קייש)

  Born 1895 in Zablotov, Galicia. The Keusch family lived in Stanislava, Galicia. The last letter was written in Spring 1941 from Russian occupied area and received in Palestine in the Spring of 1942.

  Aaron was a professional wood and forest expert that worked with his father in business.

  We had a report that Aaron Keusch was in the third Judenradt in Stanislava.

• Naomi Zissel Fogel Keusch (Kaish)

  Born 1905 in Stanislava, Galicia.

• Menachem Keusch

  Born 1926 in Stanislava, Galicia.

• Joseph Shimshon Keusch

  Born 1928 in Stanislava, Galicia.

• Taube (Tova) Keusch Bloch

  Born 1893 in Zablotov, Galicia.

  (The Bloch family lived in Dalatin, Galicia.)

• Benjamin Bloch

  Born 1891 (?) in Galicia.

• Hadassah Bloch

  Born 1925 in Dalatin, Galicia.

• Devorah Bloch

  Born 1928 in Dalatin, Galicia.

• Joseph Bloch

  Born 1931 in Dalatin, Galicia.

  Content last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 08:58 PM US Eastern Daylight Time

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• Memoirs of Abraham Keusch

  1. Essay by Getzel Kressel
  2. Translators’ Note
  3. Grandfather’s Introduction
  4. Family History and Zablotov
  5. Grandfather in Cheder
  6. After Cheder – Employment
  7. Austrian Army at age 18
  8. Beginning of Zionism
  9. After the Army, and Marriage
  10. Business – Wood and Lumber Industry – Family
  11. World War 1 (1914-18) – the Border Austria vs. Russia
  12. Grandfather in Austrian Army at Age 50
  13. End of WW1 – Polish and Ukrainian Pogroms and Massacres
  14. Aliyah to Eretz Israel – 1924
  15. Buying Land in Eretz Israel – Wood Business
  16. First of Many Trips to Poland and Europe
  17. Land Swindle
  18. First Purchase of Crates for Oranges from Poland
  19. Impending War – 1939 - Final farewell to family and friends – Last ship from Constanta, Romania
  20. Arrival in Eretz Israel
  21. Beginning of Blindness
  22. Letters Stop Coming from Family in Galicia – December 15, 1941
  23. Land Swindle Continues
  24. End of WWII – Details of Murdered Family
  25. Decision to Publish Yiskor Book on Zablotow
  26. Life in Eretz Israel after WWII
  27. Grandfather Abraham’s 80^th Birthday
  28. Military Occupation by British Troops
  29. Plan to Visit Family in USA
  30. May 14, 1948: Proclamation of the Jewish State
  31. Nathan Keusch, Oldest Son of Abraham and Father of David Keusch
  32. Reminiscing about the Wood Business
  33. Visit by Grandson David Arie Keusch to Eretz Israel – 1952
  34. Recollection of Economics in the Carpathian Mountains
  35. Lukivitz – 1891 – The Wood Business
  36. Yablonov – 1896
  37. Election to First Zionist Congress
  38. Towns where Grandfather Worked and Lived – Economics, Social and Religious Life
  39. Pogrom in Galicia – Dalatin
  40. Yaramtchi – The Legend of “Dovbush”
  41. Mikolitchim – Wood Business
  42. 1929 – Beginning of Sending Orange Crates from Poland
  43. 1920 – Letter from KKL
  44. More Train Stations
  45. 1916 – Kielce, Poland – 1937 Revisit to Kielce
  46. 1924-1939 – Nine trips to Europe – Memories
  47. Getzel Kressel
  48. Memorial to Zablotow
  49. Grandfather’s 90^th Birthday – Visit by David and Ruth Keusch and Daughter-in-Law Rivka
  50. Epilogue

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