# Massuah (Tel Yitzhak) — two Selvino-alumni items naming Avraham Kutner

## A. 105965 — "לזכרם" memorial booklet of the Selvino group, 1988 (AR-SHOA-00059-007)
- https://infocenters.co.il/massuah/notebook_ext.asp?book=105965&site=massuah&lang=HEB ; file ארכיון היסטורי\שואה\105965.pdf (34 pp.). Saved copy: massuah_105965_lezichram-selvino-memorial-booklet-1988.pdf (11.3 MB; direct HTTP download of the file returns 405, saved through the Chrome PDF viewer) + crops of pages 22-23.
- Catalog text: "Members named in the book: Moshe Zeiri, Dr Carol, Reuven Donat, Moshe Auerbach, Avraham Erlich b. 25.9.1935 Bedzin, Zeev Lupo, Zeev Moreshchik, Lilly Nudelman, Dov Inbar (Bronek Bornstein), Shalom Finkelstein, Zeev Feldman (Overek), **אברהם קוטנר**, Tzvi Kiper b. 15.4.1926 Olyka, Shlomo Kramf, Ram Shachor (Romek), Shmulik ..." (copyright note: "no use without clearing rights").
- **Book page 22 (PDF p. 23) – heading "אברהם קוטנר" — memorial tribute signed "שמוליק שילה (שולמן)" (Shmulik Shilo/Shulman), continuing to p. 23.** Content, paraphrased (not a transcription): he was "Avramek" to all; first farm coordinator (מרכז המשק) of Tze'elim, foundation-layer, construction coordinator, treasurer, ordinary builder, poured the first houses; born in Ozorków near Łódź; the ghetto; in Auschwitz he lost his parents and fought as a child for the right to survive, small but sturdy; the camp number stayed on his arm until his last day in Beersheba; he did not speak of present-day deeds, kept a secret heart defect even from close friends, but told ghetto/Auschwitz/death-march stories at social evenings in Yehezkel's house, argued Zionism and politics hotly, raised his children to love the land; in Selvino he stood out for wisdom and direct speech and, though not among the oldest, commanded respect; reached Cyprus on the "Haim Arlosoroff" and fought the British; arrived in Israel directly to Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Youth Aliyah, from there the whole group enlisted in the new Nahal, then Tze'elim in the Negev; death sudden, "like thunder on a clear day"; survived by Tzipka (Zipora) and two grown, married children; there is a granddaughter whom he did not live to see.
- **Grade: מאומת כעדות (1988 eulogy by a Selvino comrade; secondary-primary, no dates).** New facts vs report: Youth Aliyah -> Kfar Ruppin -> Nahal -> Tze'elim path; "first farm coordinator / builder / treasurer" of Tze'elim (report 4.3 has only "first secretary"); Auschwitz number tattooed (the Auschwitz victims DB has no record — see docs/auschwitz note); heart defect as the cause of the sudden death in March 1986; granddaughter born after his death. Agrees with report on Selvino, Arlosoroff, Auschwitz, parents' fate, Beersheba burial, Zipora.
- Also in booklet: other Selvino members' notices (pp. 3-34) — Esther Werber and Zipora are not named in the catalog listing.

## B. 120254 — "שאלון אישי ליוצאי סלבינו — קוטנר אברהם, יליד 1930, אוזורקוב, פולין" (AR-SHOA-00077-004)
- https://infocenters.co.il/massuah/notebook_ext.asp?book=120254&site=massuah&lang=HEB — source/depositor "ארגון יוצאי סלבינו" (Selvino alumni organisation), Hebrew; origin "ישראל"; **no digital file online** (files: []). Same series as 71695, 120226-120268 (AR-SHOA-00076/00077). Sample blank questionnaire with PDF: 7759 (AR-SHOA-00077-019).
- **Grade: מאומת (catalog record exists); contents unseen.** Birth year 1930 again (third independent use of 1930 besides Selvino list, Cyprus list). Lead: request a copy from Massuah (family member). Same series holds Esther Werber (b. 1931 Maciejów, 120259 AR-SHOA-00077-009) — relevant for Tzipora's project; Zipora Balem's questionnaire was not among the first 50 hits.

## Publication note (27.10.2026)
The catalogue marks the booklet "no use without clearing rights". The PDF and the page crops are kept in the project's unpublished working folder (ארכיון_עבודה/massuah_105965/), not on the site; the report paraphrases and quotes a few phrases, with the catalogue link.