About This Project
This project is being initiated in order to fund the translation of the 621 page Yizkor Book. The goal is to eventually provide a complete translation of this book to JewishGen. The online translation will appear on the Yizkor Book Translations site
Historical Significance
WPrior to the outbreak of WWII, Zawiercie had a Jewish community of approximately 7,000 souls. The community was wiped out, with the final aktion taking place in 1943, and was not reconstituted after the war. Survivors, descendents of survivors, as well as descendents of those who emigrated from Zawiercie prior to the war are known to exist in Israel, the United States, Canada and other places. This Yizkor book is the major formal source for documented history of the town, and will result in the creation of the primary English language source of information for anyone doing research on the town and its Jewish community.
Project Details
As funds become available, all Hebrew and Yiddish pages will be translated into English. To accomplish that JewishGen will hire a professional translator. The translator will likely be Jerrold Landau, a prolific JewishGen translator, who also has family roots in Zawiercie, and who provided the translation of the skeletal elements of the book over a decade ago as one of the first JewishGen endeavors in Yizkor Book translation. Jerrold agrees to revise the skeletal elements, providing a table of contents usable by the JewishGen format, as well as a separate list of photos, as his own donation to the project prior to the commencement of the funded translation.
In the unlikely event that there should be a plethora of funds, and a single translator cannot contain the workload, additional translators may be hired as well.
The project coordinator will select the order in which the chapters will be translated and will work closely with the translator to ensure a grammatically correct and idiomatic translation. Those who donate money to the project will be given the opportunity to select the chapters of interest for priority in translation. Specific tasks the project coordinator will perform include proofreading, editing, and preparing the work for submission to the Yizkor Book Project.
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