Proposal
Zambrow, Poland Yizkor Book
Project Name. The Book of Zambrov (Zambrów, Poland)
Project Leader
Stacy Hankin
JewishGen Yizkor Book Project Manager
Lance Ackerfeld
Fax: 1-909-259-7005
Project Synopsis
“The Book of Zambrow, Memories of our town which had been annihilated by the Nazis and does not exist any more” was published in 1963 in Hebrew and English with a 69-page summary in English. This translation project will be completed in phases, with any indices translated first, including the table of contents and photo captions. All translations will be posted to http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/zambrow/zambrow.html, where an index to photos in the book is online.
Key Audiences
Jewish genealogists seeking to trace their roots in this town constitute the primary audience for the material. However, the material has the potential to be of broader interest to scholars specializing in Jewish history and society in this region.
Project Importance
Yizkor books are unique sources of information on once vibrant towns, primarily in central and eastern Europe, whose Jewish populations were destroyed in the Holocaust. Written after World War II by émigrés and Holocaust survivors, yizkor books contain narratives of the history of the town, details of daily life, religious and political figures and movements, religious and secular education, and gripping stories of the major intellectual and Zionist movements of the 20th century. The necrologies and lists of residents are of tremendous genealogical value, as often the names of individuals who were taken to extermination camps or shot in the forests are not recorded elsewhere. Usually written in Hebrew or Yiddish, these important books are not accessible to most users, who cannot read these languages. Thus, the translation of these books into English unlocks this information to many more researchers all over the world. The JewishGen Yizkor Book Project received the award in 2002 for outstanding contribution to Jewish genealogy by the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies.
Zambrow was once a flourishing town with a vibrant Jewish community, but the town and its people suffered greatly during the Holocaust. No Jewish population remains. The Jewish cemetery still exists and efforts are underway to restore it. This book, written by those that lived and loved there, brings the town alive again.
Project Description
The book has 696 pages. The 69-page English summary will be scanned, leaving approximately 627 pages to be translated. Indices and the Table of Contents will be translated and placed online first, followed by each of the ten chapters, the priority determined by interest of donors.
To accomplish that JewishGen will hire a professional translator. The project coordinator will select the order in which to translate the chapters and will work closely with the translator to ensure a grammatically correct and idiomatic translation. Specific tasks the project coordinator will perform include proofreading, editing, and preparing the work for submission to the Yizkor Book Project.
Estimated Cost.
Direct costs are estimated to be $15,675. Indirect costs will be calculated at a later time.
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