Jewish Genealogical Society
of Greater Philadelphia (JGSGP)

The Yizkor Project

Yizkor books are memorials to Jewish communities (shtetls) in central and eastern Europe destroyed in the Holocaust. Former residents describe the communities and give their memories of the people who lived there just before and during the Holocaust.

The JewishGen Yizkor Project has been compiling where to find Yizkor books, people who are interested in them, libraries that have them, etc. While the JGSGP collection, housed in the Tuttleman Library of Gratz College, does not contain Yizkor books as yet, the Tuttleman Library does have a significant number of these memorial books, most of which are printed in Hebrew or Yiddish. Alan Remstein, JGSGP Librarian, has compiled the list of these Yizkor books as shown below.

In the Language column of the tables, the abbreviations mean:

E	- English
F	- French
H	- Hebrew
Hu	- Hungarian
P	- Polish
R	- Russian
SC	- Serbo-Croation
Y	- Yiddish

YIZKOR BOOKS AT THE TUTTLEMAN LIBRARY
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Annopol	Ukraine	Rachov-Annopol; testimony and remembrance	H,Y,E	REF DS 135 P62 R247
Antopol	Belarus	Antopol (Antepolie); yizkor book	H,Y,E	REF DS 135 R93 A62 1972
Babi Yar	Ukraine	The Babi Yar book of remembrance	Y,R,E	DS 135 R93 B34 1983
Benderi	Moldova	Bendery and her holy community	Y	Hol. Arch. DS 135 R7 B4 1975
Bershad	Ukraine	Bershad	H	DS 135 R93 B3874 1956
Biala Podlaska	Poland	Book of Biala Podlaska	H,Y	REF DS 135 P62 B52
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Biala Rawska	Poland	Memorial book to the martyrs of Biala Rawska	H, Y	REF DS 135 P62 B53 1972
Bialystok	Poland	The Bialystoker memorial book	Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 B5753 1982
Bielsk-Podlaski	Poland	Bielsk-Podliask; book in the holy memory of the Bielsk-Podliask Jews	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 B572
Brigel	Poland	Remembrance Book of the Brigel Community	H,Y,E	REF DS 135 P62 B757 1980
Cakovec	Yugoslavia	Holocaust scroll of the holy community of Cakovec	H, SC	REF DS 135 Y82 C343
Czenstochov	Poland	Czenstochov, our legacy	Y,E	REF DS 135 P62 C8791 1993
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Dubossary	Muldavia	Dubossary memorial book	H, Y	REF DS 135 M64 D8 1965
Gorodenka	Ukraine	The book of Horodenka	H, Y	REF DS 135 R93 G67 1963
Jaroslaw	Poland	Jaroslav book	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 J297
Jedwabne	Poland	Yedwabne; history and memorial book	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 J448 1980
Kedainiai	Lithuania	Keidan memorial book	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 R93 L553
Kielce	Poland	About our house which was devastated	H, Y, P, E	DS 135 P62 K54 1981
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Kielce	Poland	Annihlation of 50,000 Jews of Kielce	H	DS 135 P62 K53 1983
Kishinev	Moldavia	Ghetto Kishinev - the Final Program	H	DS 135 R93 K593 1977
Kisvarda	Hungary	Memorial book of Kleinwardein and vicinity	H, Hu, E	REF DS 135 H92 K574
Kolbuszowa	Poland	Kolbuszowa Memorial Book	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 K6636 1971
Kolozsvar	Romania	Memorial volume of the Jews of Cluj-Kolozsvar	H, E, Hu	REF DS 135 R72 C54 1970
Kowel	Ukraine	Kowel; testimony & memorial book of our destroyed community	H, Y	REF DS 135 R93 K6951
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Krakow	Poland	Krakow ghetto and the Plaszow camp remembered	E	DS 135 P62 K6824 1989
Krivichi	Belarus	Kryvitsh Yizkor Book Ner-tamid for Jewish community	H, Y	REF DS 135 R93 K746
Lipkany	Moldavia	Community of Lipkany	H, Y	REF DS 135 R93 L49 1963
Lodz	Poland	The community of Lodz; a Jewish mother city	H	DS 135 P62 L62 1948
Luboml	Ukraine	Luboml - The Memorial Book of a Vanished Shtetl	E	REF DS 135 U42 L497 1997
Lyuboml	Ukraine	Yizkor book of Luboml	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 R9J L957
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Miedzyrzec	Ukraine	Mezritsh book in memory of the martyrs of our city	H, Y	REF DS 135 P62 1978
Mielec	Poland	Mielec Jews	Y	DS 135 P62 M254
Minsk	Belarus	Minsk; Jewish mother city; a memorial anthology	H	REF DS 135 R95 M555 1955
Mir	Belarus	Memorial book of Mir	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 B38 S43 1962
Nowy Targ	Poland	Remembrance book Nowy Targ and vicinity	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 N657 1979
Pinsk	Belarus	Pinsk Historical Vol; History of Jews of Pinsk	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 R93 P54 1977
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Piotrkow Trybunals	Poland	A tale of one city; Piotrkow kTrybunalski	E	DS 135 P62 P5 1991
Pruzhany	Belarus	Memorial book of five destroyed communinities	Y	REF DS 135 B38 P78 1958
Pruzhany	Belarus	Pinkas Pruz'any and its vicinity	H, Y	REF DS 135 R93 P93 P785 1983
Przasnysz	Poland	Memorial book to the community of Proshnitz	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 P73 1974
Przedborz	Poland	Przedborz memorial book	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 P7358
Radekhov	Ukraine	Memorial book (of above towns listed)	H, Y	REF DS 135 R95 R287
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Radom	Poland	The book of Radom; story of a Jewish comm. in Poland destroyed	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 R323 1961
Rozan	Poland	Rozhan memorial book	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 R69 1977
Skala	Ukraine	Book of Skala	H,Y,E	REF DS 135 R93 S5294 1978
Sokolovka	Ukraine	Sokolievka/Justingrad; a century of struggle and suffering in a Ukrainian shtetl	E, H, Y	DS 135 R93 S66 1985
Sombor	Yugoslavia	The Sombor community in its destruction	H	DS 135 Y82 S657 1970
Stryj	Ukraine	Memorial book of Stryj	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 R93 S83 1962
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Terebovlya, Struso	Ukraine	Memorial Book for the Jewish Communities of Trembowla, Strusow, Janow and vicinity	H, E	REF DS 135 R93 T467
Thessalonike	Ukraine	Salonika ir va-em be-Yisrael	H, F	DS 135 G72 T55 1967
Tlumats	Ukraine	Memorial book of Tlumacz	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 R93 T425 1976
Tomaszow Mazowieck	Poland	Tomashow-Mazowieck; a memorial to the Jewish community	H, Y, E, F	REF 135 P62 T67 1969
Turets	Belarus	Book of remembrance - Tooretz-Yeremitz	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 R93 T784
Vilna	Lithuania	Vilna Almanac	Y,E	REF DS 135 L52 V558 1992
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Vilnius	Lithuania	Jerusalem of Lithunia, illustrated and documented	H, Y, E, R	REF DS 135 R93 V584
Vlodava & Sobibor	Poland	Yizkor book in memory of Vlodava & region Sobibor	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 W715 1974
Wodzislaw	Poland	Sefer Wodzislaw-Sedziszow	H, Y	REF DS 135 P62 W65 1978
Wyszogrod	Poland	Dedicated to the memory of Vishogrod	H, Y, E	REF DS 135 P62 V585 1971
Yavorov	Ukraine	Monument to the community of Jaworow and surrounding	H, Y	REF DS 135 R93 Y385
Zambrov	Poland	The Book of Zambrov	H,Y,E	REF DS 135 P62 Z2891 1963
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	LANGUAGES	CALL NO.
Zeiva	Lithuania	Zelva memorial book	E	Hol Arch DS 135 B38 S45 1992
Zelow	Poland	Memorial book of the community of Zelow	H, Y	REF DS 135 P62 Z447
Zloczow	Ukraine	Zloczow Memoir	E	DS 135 P62 Z55 1986

OTHER BOOKS AT THE TUTTLEMAN LIBRARY ABOUT SHTETLS
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	AUTHORS	LANGUAGES	CALL
		Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora		H	REF DS 135 E8 E55
	Europe	Pinkas, Ha-Kehilot		H	REF DS 135 E83 P5
(Karpatalja) Maramures	Ukraine	Memorial book of the martyrs of Karpatorus-Marmarosh	Shlomo Rozman	Y	REF DS 135 R93 Z28 1968
	Lithuania	Lithuanian Jewry		H	REF DS 135 L5 Y3
	Lithuania	Lithuania		Y	REF DS 135 L5 L5 c.2
	Romania	Jews of Romania	Shlomo Bickel	H	DS 135 R72 B773 1978
SHTETL	COUNTRY	TITLE	AUTHORS	LANGUAGES	CALL
	Poland	The Black Book - Soviet Union and death camps of Poland		E	DS 135 R92 B5313 1981

There are two other libraries in the Philadelphia area that have significant Yizkor collections.

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