Yizkor Books in Print

Project Coordinator – Joel Alpert

The Yizkor Books Project is pleased to announce the intention to print fully translated Yizkor Books, so that copies will be available for purchase by the descendants of those destroyed communities, as well as by museum, university and synagogue libraries. Our intention is for this unique literature to be the source for teaching the history of these towns. We are aware that people can print the material from the web, and many will continue to do so. Nevertheless we feel there are those who would treasure a professionally printed version they can hold in their hands, or store on their own bookshelves Our project will offer affordable copies since the project was created both as a service to the public and as a memorial to the destroyed Jewish communities.

Background of Yizkor (memorial) Books:

These Yizkor (memorial) books were originally written by survivors or former residents of the towns who gathered in “Landsleit” groups mainly in Israel, the US and South America. They initially wrote down their memories of the town informally in the 1950s and 1960s. These writings were eventually turned into books in the Yiddish and Hebrew languages. There are over 2000 such books, however this unique body of literature had not been available to the English reading public. Now more than 100 of them have been fully translated into English in the Yizkor Books project of JewishGen and appear on the project web site http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ along with partially translated books. Of those, we have thus far published 66 books in hard cover, with more being worked on.

Notice of special discounted prices to Libraries, Synagogues, Holocaust Memorials and families:

We are pleased to announce that we can offer special discounted prices for orders of four (4) books or more to a single address. The prices are approximately 25% below the Amazon discounted price. The order can be for four (or more) different titles or four (or more) copies of the same book. (The four book minimum limit is firm.)
If you are interested in obtaining specific prices, please email ybip@jewishgen.org.
Note: The offer does not apply to “The Mahler Family” or the “To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona” books.

Currently available translated Yizkor Books In Print:

Antopol, Belarus

Shards of Memory: Messages from the Lost Shtetl of Antopol, Belarus

Edited by Alicia Esther Goldberg
Translated by Nathan Snyder
Published by JewishGen
470 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images

List Price: $58.95 Available on Amazon for $43, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Bender, Moldova

Yizkor Book of Our Birth Place: Bendery

Translation of Kehilat Bendery; Sefer Zikaron
In the Original Yizkor Book
Yiddish and Hebrew Sections Edited by M. Tamari
English Section Editor: Dina Ginton
Originally published by Bendery Societies in Israel and the United States 1975 (H, Y, E, 488 pages)
Editor of the English Translation: Gloria (Schwartzman) Green
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 714 pages with all illustrations of the original Yizkor book.

List Price: $65.95 Available on Amazon for around $49 may have lower prices elsewhere

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Bolekhiv, Ukraine

Memorial Book of Bolekhov

Translation of Sefer ha-zikaron le-kedoshei Bolechow
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Y. Eshel
Published by the Association of Former Residents of Bolechow in Israel, 1957
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 252 pages

List Price: $47.95 Available on Amazon for around $36, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Brańsk, Poland

Bransk, Book of Memories

Translation of Bransk, sefer hazikaron
Editors: Alter Trus and Julius Cohen, Brainsker Relief Committee of New York,
Originally published in New York 1948 (Yiddish 440 pages)
Project Coordinator: Rubin Roy Cobb
Translations: Rubin Roy Cobb, Mindle Crystal Gross
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 476 pages with all illustrations.

List Price: $57.95 Available on Amazon for around $42 may have lower prices elsewhere

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Brest, Belarus

Brest-Litovsk - Volume II
Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora

Translation of Brisk de-Lita: Encycolpedia Shel Galuyot
Original Yiddish Volume Edited by Elieser Steinman Published in Jerusalem, 1958
498 pages, 8.5" by 11", hard cover, including all photos and other images

List Price: $56.95 Available on Amazon for around $41, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Brody, Ukraine

An Eternal Light: Brody, in Memoriam

Translation of Ner Tamid: Yizkor leBrody
Original Yizkor Book Editor-in-chief: Aviv Meltzer
Organization of former Brody Residents in Israel
Published in Jerusalem, Israel, 1994
Translation Project Coordinator: Moshe Kutten
Translation Project Coordinator Emerita: Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld
Cover Design: Nina Schwartz, Impulse Graphics LLC
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”,
712 pages with all illustrations of the original Yizkor book

List Price: $65.95 Available on Amazon for around $48 may have lower prices elsewhere

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Briceni, Moldova

Memorial Book of Brichany, Moldova:
Its Jewry in the First Half of Our Century

Translation of Britshan: Britsheni ha-yehudit be-mahatsitha-mea ha-aharona
Original Yizkor Book edited by Yaakov Amizur
Written by Former residents of Brichany
Published in Tel Aviv 1964, in Hebrew with 296 pages
Translation Project Coordinator: Roberta Jaffer

Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 366 pages with all illustrations.

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Brzeziny, Poland

Brzezin Memorial Book

Original Book Edited by A. Alperin and N. Summer
Translated from the Yiddish by Renee Miller
English Edition Coordinated and Edited by Fay Vogel Bussgang
Published by JewishGen
464 pages with all images

List Price: $61.95 Available on Amazon for $45.22, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Buchach, Ukraine

Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Buczacz, Galicia

Original written in Hebrew
Edited by Yisrael Cohen
Published in Tel Aviv, 1956
Translation Project Coordinator and Book Layout: Thomas Weiss
360 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images

List Price: $57.95 Available on Amazon for around $42, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Ciechanow, Poland

Memorial (Yizkor) Book for the Jewish Community of Ciechanow

Original written in Hebrew and Yiddish
Edited by A. Wolf Yassini, Tel Aviv 1962
Translated into English by Miriam Dashkin Beckerman
Project Coordinator, Stan Zeidenberg
518 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images

List price: $57.95 Available at Amazon for $42, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Częstochowa, Poland

The Destruction of Częstochowa

Original Book Edited by S. Waga
Translated from the Yiddish by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
English Edition Coordinated and Edited by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
Published by JewishGen

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Daugavpils, Latvia

Remembering Dvinsk

Part 1.	Dvinsk, The Rise and Decline of a Town Original in Yiddish by Yudel Flior Translated by Bernard Sachs
Part 2.	In Memory of the Community of Dvinsk Original in Hebrew – Edited by Tamar Amarant Translated by Amy Samin
Part 3.	Appendix of Images Collected and edited by Eilat Gordin Levitan

Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 320 pages with all illustrations.

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Dębica, Poland

The Book of Dembitz

Translation of Sefer Dembitz
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: D. Leibl
Published by Association of Former Residents of Debica
in Tel Aviv, 1960 (Hebrew and Yiddish, 204 pages)
Translation Project Coordinators: Marc Seidenfeld and Aviva Weintraub
Hard Cover, 11" by 8.5", 400 pages with all illustration

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Dokshytsy, Belarus

Dokshitz-Parafianov Memorial (Yizkor) Book

Translation of Sefer Dokshitz-Parafianov
Original Hebrew and Yiddish Yizkor Book
Editor: David Stockfish Published in Tel Aviv, 1970
Translation Editors: Joel Alpert and Aaron Ginsburg
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 450 pages with all illustrations of the original Yizkor book,
plus a new appendix of significant materials collected after the publication of the original book.

List Price: $54.95 Available on Amazon for around $40, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Drahichyn, Belarus

Drohitchin Memorial (Yizkor) Book 500 years of Jewish Life

Translation of Drohitchin – finf hundert yor yidish lebn
Original Edited by: Dov Warshawsky, Book Committee Drohiczyn
Originally Published in Yiddish in Chicago, 1958
Translation Project Coordinator, Glen Strauss
Editor, Print Edition: Florence Schumacher
736 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images and new lists of residents compiled recently

List Price: $64.95 Available on Amazon for around $47, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Dubăsari, Moldova

Dubossary Memorial Book

Translation Project Coordinator: Sarah Faerman
Originally Published in Tel-Aviv, 1965 in Yiddish and Hebrew
Edited by: Y. Rubin
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 334 pages with all illustrations and photos
374 pages

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Dusetos, Lithuania

There Was A Shtetl In Lithuania:
Dusiat Reflected In Reminiscences

Compiled by Sara Weiss-Slep
Edited and produced by Hedva Scop and Olga Zabludoff
Cover Design: Rachel Klein/Klein Design Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”,
960 pages with all illustrations of the original Yizkor book

List Price: $77.95 Available on Amazon for $56, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Działoszyce, Poland

Yizkor Book of the Jewish Community in Dzialoszyce and Surroundings

Original book Published by the Dzialoszyce Society in Israel
Translation edited and annotated by Fay and Julian Bussgang
English Edition Published by JewishGen
374 pages

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Galicia

Memorial Book of 13 Shtetls of Galicia

The Jewish Communities of Dziedzilow, Winniki, Barszczowice, Pidelisek, Pidbaritz, Kukizov, Old Jarczow,
Pekalowice, Kamenopole, Nowy Jarczow, Kamionka Strumilowa, Kulikow in the Ukraine and Osijek in Croatia

Written by William Leibner
Edited by Ingrid Rockberger
Cover Design: Rachel Kolokoff Hopper
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”,
234 pages of recently collected material

List Price: $45.95 Available on Amazon for around $33 may have lower prices elsewhere

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Gol'shany, Belarus

The Life and Destruction of Olshan

Translation of Lebn un umkum fun Olshan
Original Yizkor Book Written and Edited by: Former Residents of Olshan in Israel (Irgun Yotzey Olshan)
Published in Tel Aviv, 1965 (Hebrew, Yiddish and English)
This English Version was Translated and Edited by Jack Leibman Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 336 pages with all illustrations

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Goniądz, Poland

Memorial Book of Goniadz Poland

Translation of Sefer Yizkor Goniadz
Originally in Yiddish, Hebrew and English
Edited by Moshe Shlomo Ben-Meir (I. Treshansky) Published in Tel-Aviv, 1960
Translation Project Coordinator: Suzanne Scheraga Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 548 pages with all illustrations

List Price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $43 may have lower prices elsewhere

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Gostynin, Poland

Book of Gostynin, Poland

Translation of Pinkas Gostynin
Translation Project Coordinator: Jessie Weistrop Klein
Primary Translators: Pamela Russ and Yocheved Klausner
Original was edited by. J. M. Biderman
Pubished in Tel Aviv and New York
By the Gostynin Memorial Book Committee in 1960
(440 pages, Yiddish)

Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 438 pages with all illustrations of the original Yizkor book.
Cover design by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper

List Price: $53.95 Available on Amazon for around $39 may have lower prices elsewhere

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Grajewo, Poland

Grayewo Memorial (Yizkor) Book

Translation of Grayeve yisker-bukh (Grayewo Memorial Book)
Editor: Dr. George Gorin, New York
Originally Published by: United Grayever Relief Committee, 1950
In Yiddish and English, 311 pages
Translation Project Coordinators: Evelyn Fine and Shelly Levin
358 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images.

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Hardcover version for your important bookshelf. $49.95 Available on Amazon for around $36
Student Edition (paperback) $12.16
E-book $8.99

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Holocaust

Belzec - Stepping Stone to Genocide

Written by Robin O'Neil
Takes the reader step by step into the background
of the “Final Solution” and gives eyewitness testimony
as the mass graves were located and recorded.

List Price: $54.95, Available on Amazon site for around $41

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Holocaust

Brichah or בריחה
(Hebrew for Escape or Flight)

By William Leibner
Edited by Phyllis Oster
Hard Cover, 11" by 8.5", 286 pages with all illustrations

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Holocaust

God's Sabbatical Years
The Story of Alan Weiler

By Peter Harris
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 234 pages with illustrations.

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Holocaust

My Journey to Freedom: Kybartai to Haifa

A true story of resourcefulness, courage, cleverness, and love

List Price: $44.95 Available on Amazon for $31, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Holocaust

Pan Kapitan of Jordanow

Complied by William Leibner
Edited by Erica S. Goldman-Brodie
Cover Design by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 210 pages

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Holocaust

Pure Soldiers Or Sinister Legion
The Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division

Written by Sol Littman
Book by the Canadian investigative reporter Sol Littman.
Paperback, 9” by 6”, 266 pages with all illustrations and photos.

List Price: $12.95, Available on Amazon site for around $9.50

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Holocaust

The Mahler Family

Written by Robin O'Neil
Hardback or paperback, 6 x 1.9 x 9 ”, 828 pages

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Holocaust

To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona

Translations by Richard Fenwick and Raisa Moroz
Published by Jewish Family and Children's Services of Southern Arizona in 2015
Original book edited by Raisa Moroz and Richard Fenwick

List Price: Available on Amazon for $18

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Holocaust

War Criminal on Trial

Written by Sol Littman
This reprint of the timeless 1983 book by the Canadian investigative reporter Sol Littman.
Paperback, 9” by 6”, 260 pages with all illustrations and photos.

List Price: $12.95, Available on Amazon site for around $9.50

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Horodenka, Ukraine

Yizkor (Memorial) Book of Horodenka, Ukraine

Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Shimon Meltzer
Published in Yiddish and Hebrew in Tel Aviv, 1963
Translation Project Coordinator, Mark Heckman
558 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images

List price: $51.95 Available at Amazon for $41, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Jasło, Poland

Yizkor (Memorial) Book of the Jewish Community of Jaslo, Poland

Original written in Hebrew
Edited by Moshe Nathan Even Chaim (Rapaport), Tel Aviv 1953
Translated into English by William Leibner and edited by Phyllis Kramer
316 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images

List price: $49.95 Available at Amazon for $36, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Jonava, Lithuania

Jonava On the Banks of the Vylia; In memory of the destroyed Jewish community of Jonava, Lithuania

Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Shimon Noy,
Published in1972 in Tel Aviv,
by the Jonava Society, (Yiddish and English)
Translation Project Coordinator: Susan M. Goldsmith
Translator: Jerrold Landau
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”,
836 pages with all illustrations of the original Yizkor Book.

List price: $71.95 Available at Amazon for $52, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Jurbarkas (Yurburg), Lithuania

Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania

Original in Hebrew Edited by Zevulun Poran
Published in Tel Aviv, 1991
Translation coordinated by Joel Alpert
Hardcover 738 pages, containing over 200 illustrations

List price: $62 Available at Amazon for $45, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Karelichy, Belarus

Korelitz: The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Community

Editor of the original Yizkor Book: Michael Walzer-Fass
(568 pages, in Hebrew, Yiddish and English)
Translation Project Coordinators: Ann Belinsky and Merle Horwitz (emerita)
Cover Design: Nili Goldman
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 568 pages with all illustrations of the original
Yizkor book plus fifteen new appendices of recently collected material

List price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $45 may have lower prices elsewhere

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Kłobuck, Poland

The Book of Klobucko; In Memory of a Martyred Community

Translation Project Coordinators: Allan D. Mantel and Ruth Wilnai (emerita)

Originally Published in Yiddish in Tel Aviv, 1960
Editor: A. Wolff Jasny
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 398 pages with all illustrations and photos.
Published by JewishGen

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Korczyna, Poland

Korczyna Memorial Book

Project Coordinator and Translator: William Leibner
Editor: Phyllis Kramer
Original Yiddish Book edited by Morris Zucker and Isaac Wasserstrom
New York, 1967
310 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images and new lists of residents compiled recently

List price: $49.95 Available at Amazon for $36, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Kozienice, Poland

Memorial Book of Kozienice

Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Baruch Kaplinski, Zelig Berman, Mordekhai Donnerstein, Ratze Wasserman,
Tzvi Madanes, Levi Mandel, Elimelekh Feigenbaum, Leibel Fishstein, David Kestenberg
Original Yiddish and Hebrew Edition Published in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1969
Original English Edition Published in New York, 1985
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 880 pages with all illustrations.

List price: $79.95 Available at Amazon for $53, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Krosno, Poland

Krosno by the Wislok River
Memorial Book of Jewish Community of Krosno, Poland

Coordinator: William Leibner
Editors - Jane W. Aronson and Toby Bird
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 524 pages

List price: $55.95 Available at Amazon for $40, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Lithuanian History

Preserving Our Litvak Heritage – Volume I (A History of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania)

Written by Josef Rosin
Edited by Joel Alpert
Published by JewishGen
736 pages

List Price: $73.95 Available on Amazon for $51.77, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume II (A History of 21 Jewish Communities in Lithuania)

Written by Josef Rosin
Edited by Don Loon and Joel Alpert
Published by JewishGen
332 pages

List Price: $52.95 Available on Amazon site for around $39

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Protecting Our Litvak Heritage (A History of 50 Jewish Communities in Lithuania)

Written by Josef Rosin
Introduction by Profesor Dov Levin
488 pages, 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 Inches

List Price: $65 Available on Amazon site for around $47

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Lyubcha & Delyatichi, Belarus

Yizkor (Memorial) Book of Lyubcha and Delyatichi

Originally in Yiddish and Hebrew
Published in Haifa, Israel, 1971
Translation Project Coordinator: Ann Belinsky
442 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images

List price: $52.95 Available on Amazon for around $39, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Molchad, Belarus

Memorial Book of the Molchad (Maytchet) Jewish Community

Translation of Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Meytshet
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5,” 722 pages with all illustrations and photos.
Translation Project Coordinator: Myrna Siegel

List price: $64.95 Available on Amazon for around $47, may have lower prices elsewhere

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The Maple Tree Behind The Barbed Wire

A Story of Survival from the Czestochowa Ghetto

List Price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for $37, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Memoir

Flight to Survival

[a companion to the Czestochowa book]
Wloclawek - Warszawa Czestochowa...Eretz-Yisrael
1939 to 1945 A Personal Narrative
By Peninah Cypkewicz-Rosin
Editor: Nancy Lefkowitz
Published by JewishGen
200 pages

List Price: $41.95 Available on Amazon for $31.88, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Minsk, Belarus

We Remember Lest the World Forget

Produced by Memories of the Minsk Ghetto
Minsk Charitable Public Organisation - GILF

Translated by
Michael Hornsby Ph.D., D.Litt.
Rostyslav Kanibolotskyi M.Sc.
Iuliia Kuznetsova B.A.
Edited by Hilda Bronstein Ph.D. and Bett Demby

Hard Cover, 10” by 7”,
268 pages with all images from of the original book

The original book in Russian was published by MINSK I.P. LOGVINOV PUBLISHERS 2012
Editors of the Russian version were: Maya Krapina, Tamara Kurdadze, Yakov Murakhovskiy, Frieda Reizman and Vladimir Trachtenberg.

List price: $65.95 Available on Amazon for around $45, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Navahrudak, Belarus

Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Novogrudok, Poland

Editors of the original Yizkor Book: Eliezer Yerushalm and David Cohen
Translations: Oskar Delatycki z”l and Aviva Kamil
Project coordinator: Oskar Delatycki z”l
Editor of this publication: Rabbi Helen Cohn
Hard cover, 784 pages, with full illustrations and photos from the original book
ISBN: 978-1-939561-03-9

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Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

Memorial Book of Nowy-Dwor

Original Book Edited by Aryeh Shamri and Dov Berish First
Published by the Former Residents of Nowy-Dwor in Israel,
USA, Argentina, Uruguay, and France Tel Aviv, 1965
(575 pages, in Hebrew, Yiddish and English)

11” by 8.5”, 928 pages
with all illustrations of the original Yizkor book
Translation Project Coordinator: Debra Michlewitz
Cover design by Nili Goldman

List price: $75.95 Available at Amazon for $55, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Nowy Sącz, Poland

Blood Stained Feathers
The story of a Shoah survivor
By Mordechai Lustig
from Nowy Sącz, Poland

Translated and Edited by William Leibner
Additional Editing by Toby Bird
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 414 pages with all illustrations.

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Nowy Żmigród, Poland

Memorial Book of Nowy Zmigrod - Galicia, Poland

Compiled by William Leibner
Edited by Jane Waldman Aronson
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 332 pages

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Orhei, Moldova

Orheyev Alive and Destroyed; Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of Orhei, Moldova

Original in Hebrew Edited by Y. Spivak
Published in Tel Aviv, 1959
Translation coordinated by Terry Lasky
520 pages with all images in hard cover

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Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland

Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland

Original written in Hebrew and Yiddish
The Hebrew section editor: Aba Gordin
The Yiddish section editor: M. Gelbart
892 pages, 6.69" by 9.61", hard cover, including all photos and other images

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Yizkor Book of Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland #2

Translator and Editor: Gary S. Schiff, Ph.D.
Translation Project Coordinator: Michael Richman
Original Book Written and Edited by: Yehuda Leib Levin
Published in Hebrew in Jerusalem-Tel Aviv 1965/1966
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 392 pages with all illustrations.

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Pidhaytsi, Ukraine

The Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Podhajce, Ukraine

Originally written in Yiddish
Edited by Me'ir Shimon Geshouri
Translated into English by Jerrold Landau
540 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images

List price: $59.95 Available at Amazon for $42, may have lower prices elsewhere

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Radyvyliv, Ukraine

Memorial Book of Radzivilov

Originally in Hebrew and Yiddish Edited by Ya'acov Adini
(546 pages, in Hebrew, Yiddish and English)
Translated by Elizabeth Kessin Berman, Danielle Charak, Judith Fixler, Tina Lunson,
Ros Romem, Rivka Schiller, Mary Jane Shubow, and Yaacov David Shulman
Translation edited by Ellen Garshick
Cover Design: Nina Schwartz, Impulse Graphics LLC

Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”,
546 pages with all illustrations of the original Yizkor Book

List Price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $43

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Radzyń Podlaski, Poland

Radzyn Memorial Book (Poland)

Originally in Yiddish, Hebrew and English
Originally Published by
The Radzyn (Podlaski) Immigrants Association in Israel, Tel Aviv, 1957

Translators: Nachman Goldwasser, Temy Goldwasser and Yaakov Goldwasser
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 350 pages with all illustrations.

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Rokiškis, Lithuania

Memorial Book of Rokiskis

Original Yizkor Book Edited by: M. Bakalczuk-Felin,
Originally Published in Johannesburg, 1952 (Yiddish 626 pages)
Translation Project Coordinators: Tim Baker assisted by David Sandler
Additional Material: Phil and Aldona Shapiro Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 866 pages with all illustrations.

List Price: $72.95 Available on Amazon for around $53

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Rokytne, Ukraine

Rokitno-Wolyn and Surroundings; Memorial Book and Testimony (Ukraine)

Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Eliezer Leoni
Published in Tel Aviv, by Former Residents of Rokitno in Israel, 1967 (Hebrew and Yiddish)
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 730 pages

List Price: $69.95 Available on Amazon for around $47

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Romania

Bacău, Romania
Iaşi, Romania
Podu Iloaiei, Romania

Trilogy of Three Romanian Jewish Communities: Bacau, Iasi and Podu Iloaiei

By I. Kara

(Itsik Cara Schwartz 1906 - 2001)
Original Books Published in Romanian
by Hasefer Publishing House, Bucharest
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 480 pages with all illustrations
and extra recent photographs cover, including all photos and other images

List Price: $56.95 Available on Amazon for around $42

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Rozhnyativ, Ukraine

Rozniatow Memorial Book

Original written in Hebrew, Yiddish and English
Edited by Shimon Kanc
Published in Tel Aviv, 1974
Translation Project Coordinator and Book Layout: Thomas Weiss
Translated into English by Jerrold Landau
512 pages, 8.5" by 11", hard cover, including all photos and other images

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Ruzhany, Belarus

Rozana: a Memorial to the Ruzhinoy Jewish Community

Original written in Hebrew and Yiddish
Collected and Edited by Mayer Sokolowsky
Supplementary chapters in Yiddish by Joseph Abramovitsch
Translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish by Jerrold Landau
Co-Editors, Edie Taylor and Brian Zakem
458 pages, 6.69" by 9.61”, hard cover, including all photos and other images
Published in November 2014

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Serock, Poland

The Memorial Book of Serock

Translation of Sefer Serotsk – The Memorial Book of Serock (Serock, Poland)
Original Memorial Book in Yiddish and Hebrew Published in Tel Aviv, 1971
Edited by: Mordechai Gelbart
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 576 pages.

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Siedlce, Poland

The Jews in Siedlce – 1850–1945

Translation of Żydzi w Siedlcach 1850-1945
By Edward Kopówka
Hard Cover, 9.6” by 6.7”, 450 pages

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Sierpc, Poland

The Community of Sierpc - Memorial Book

Translation of Kehilat Sierpc; Sefer Zikaron
Editor: E. Talmi (Wloka)
Originally in Yiddish and Hebrew
Editors of the Translation: Dorothy Lipsky and Sandra Krisch
Translators: Jerrold Landau (Yiddish) and Alex Weingarten (Hebrew)
Published in Tel Aviv, 1959 Hard Cover, 11" by 8.5", 868 pages

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Slonim, Belarus

The 51st Brigade

The History of the Jewish Partisan Group from the Slonim Ghetto
By Sarah Shner-Nishmit
Translated into English by Judith Levi
Originally published in Hebrew by
The Ghetto Fighters Museum Publication - The Israel Ministry of Defence
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 400 pages

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Sobrance, Slovakia

The Unlikely Hero of Sobrance
by William Leibner and Larry Price
Edited by Ingrid Rockberger
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 210 pages with illustrations

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Stawiski, Poland

Stawiski Memorial Book (Poland)

Translation of Stawiski; sefer yizkor
Original Yizkor Book edited by: I. Rubin
Published by Stavisk Society, 1973
Translation Project Coordinator: Jan Meisels Allen
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 406 pages with all illustrations and photos

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Stryj, Ukraine

Book of Stryj

Translation of Sefer Stryj
The Original Yizkor Book: Edited by N. Kudish, Tel Aviv
Published by the Former Residents of Stryj in Israel, 1962
Translated by Susan Rosin, Yocheved Klausner, Israel Pickholtz,
Ganit Eiron, Daniella Heller, and Susannah Juni
Cover Design: Nili Goldman
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 742 pages
with all illustrations of the original Yizkor book.

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Telekhany, Belarus

Telekhan

Edited by: Sh. Sokoler, Published in Los Angeles, 1963
Translated by David Goldman
Translations donated by Ray Stone and Rita Krakower Margolis
Project Coordinator, Ray Stone
218 pages, 8.5” by 11”, hard cover, including all photos and other images

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Turka, Ukraine

Memorial Book of the Community of Turka on the Stryj and Vicinity

Translation of Sefer Sikaron le-Kehilat Turka al Nehar Stryj ve-ha-Seviva
Edited by:Yitzhak Siegelman and Association of Former Residents of Turka (Stryj) in Israel
Published in Israel, 1966, (Hebrew and Yiddish)
Translated by Jerrold Landau
Project Coordinator, Mary Violette Seeman
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 452 pages

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Yampol, Ukraine

Yampol Memorial Book

186 pages with Illustrations.

List Prices:

Hardcover version for your important bookshelf. $41.95 Available on Amazon for around $32
Student Edition (paperback) $14.99
Researcher Edition (e-book) $6.99

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Zabolotiv, Ukraine

A City and the Dead; Zablotow Alive and Destroyed - Memorial Book of Zabolotov

Translation of Ir u-metim; Zablotow ha-melea ve-ha-hareva
Original Yizkor Book Edited by Former Residents of Zablotow in Israel and the USA
Published in Tel-Aviv Israel, 1949
Translation Project Coordinator: Ronald B. Schechter
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 168 pages with all illustrations.

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Zabrze, Poland

Zabrze (Hindenburg) Yizkor Book

By William Leibner
Edited by Phyllis Oster and Tammy Forstater Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 270 pages with all illustrations.

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Zgierz, Poland

The Book of Zgierz- An Eternal Memorial for a Jewish Community in Poland

Original Book Edited by David Shtockfish, Sh Kanc, Z. Fisher
Translated by Jerrold Landau
English Edition Coordinated and Edited by Jerrold Jacobs
Published by JewishGen
784 pages

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Endorsements:

“The Yizkor-Books-In-Print project is indeed an extremely important project.”

Professor David Patterson
Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies University of Texas at Dallas

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Upon finding out that the Ohrei Yizkor Book was published and available, one researcher wrote:
“I have been waiting 33 years since I first came across that book in the New York Public Library and was unable to read it because I couldn't understand Yiddish. Thanks. Will purchase it.”

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“In a world in which fewer and fewer people speak and read Yiddish, and where many Jews outside of Israel do not read Hebrew fluently, the translation of these Yizkor books into English is a very important project. These books were frequently the first publications about a given community or a number of contiguous communities, and if for no other reason than that, they are of great significance. Although most are not works of traditional scholarship, they do contain extremely valuable information about the history of Jewish communities and their destruction, recollections and vignettes about daily life and the people who lived in those communities, and frequently lists of those who were murdered during the Shoah. Making them accessible to a wider public is important today and undoubtedly will remain important in the future. I am very pleased that the Yizkor-Books-in-Print Project of JewishGen has donated these books to our library collection and I am quite certain that our readers will find them to be of much use. For our part we hope to preserve them for future generations. ”

Dr. Robert Rozett
Director of the Libraries, Yad Vashem

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“I have the original book in Yiddish and Hebrew but always wanted a copy of the English translation, which I haven't been able to find until now so thank you! I've ordered the book and have notified the rest of my family in the States about it.”

Lois Gordon, MS MPH
Assistant Director
Hadassah Center for Clinical Quality & Safety

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“JewishGen's Yizkor Book translations are an invaluable resource for readers who cannot read the original languages, and a welcome supplement to the Yiddish Book Center's facsimile reprints of Yizkor Books from the New York Public Library's collection. Yasher koyekh! ”

Catherine Madsen
Bibliographer
Yiddish Book Center

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“The Ciechanow Yizkor book is so precious to our family. My mother, Leah “Lonia” Kirshenbaum Mosak is a Ciechanower who survived Auschwitz Birkenau; she is now 91 years old. She will not let go of the book and reads from it every day.”

Doris Lazarus

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“Although the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus has just about every memorial book in the original language, we are very pleased to be able to add the English translations being offered by Jewishgen. Our English-only speaking Library users are thrilled to be able to read about their families' hometowns and possibly trace their relatives without the help of a translator. We have every Yizkor Book in Print Project title published so far and look forward to adding more as they become available. They are of the highest quality and enhance our collection immeasurably. Thank you, Jewishgen!”

Feiga Weiss
Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus Library Archive
Farmington Hills, Michigan

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“As someone who has lost ancestors and family in the Holocaust, I can truly say that the Turka Yizkor book will allow my siblings and me to make the connection and pass it on to our children so we can preserve their memory.”

Ed Nagler,
Panama City, FL

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“This review is from: Yizkor (Memorial) Book of Horodenka, Ukraine - Translation of Sefer Horodenka (Hardcover) This history of my family's home 'shtetl' contains information that was never discussed by my grandparents living here in the United States. I highly recommend this Yizkor book to everyone who has searched for information on Horodenka--and I know there are several perhaps cousins? engaged in the hunt on the Jewish Genealogy website. I'm so happy to see the translation from the original Yiddish (and German) that makes this important and valuable information accessible to everyone. Thanks for the hard work and care that went into making this Yizkor Book of Horodenka possible.”

S. Ulanoff

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How we print the books:

The project uses the “Print on Demand” model, which utilizes the latest technology for being able to print even single books on demand and ship to individual buyers, without requiring runs of hundreds of books. Hence here is no minimum requirement of number of books to be ordered, nor is there a storage problem, nor an unsold books problem. It is ideal for our situation with a limited specalized audience. Book interiors are in black and white, whereas the covers are in color and often are replicas of the covers of the original Hebrew and Yiddish Yizkor Books or contain some artwork from the books or displays a significant historic photo.

Message to Coordinators of Yizkor Books for Prospective Printing:

We print only fully translated books for which we have permission from the copyright holder of the original Yiddish or Hebrew book to print the translation. If you are interested in getting your book in the queue for processing to be printed and published, first you must make sure that the Yizkor Book Project either already has that permission to publish or that you can get it - for clarifications on these issues, please contact Lance Ackerfeld . Desirable, but not necessary are higher resolution scans (300 dpi or preferably 600 dpi) of the images from the book than were used for the on-line version (72 dpi). When you have satisfied these requirements, then please contact Joel Alpert, Project Coordinator.

Looking for Volunteers:

In order to accomplish this task, we are looking for talented people who are willing to volunteer to make this effort happen. Below we list the people and talents we are looking for. We want to create a team of several people with each of the talents. We would assign one of each of the volunteer categories below to a book, with the exception of the Document Coordinator, Cover Editor and Publicity Specialist - one or two each for the whole project. We list the tasks with the highest needs at the top. If you can help, we'd appreciate your efforts in the task.

Book Coordinators:

Most likely the project coordinator of the Yizkor book website for that community. If necessary, obtain permissions necessary to publish the book from the organization or person holding the copyright on the original Hebrew/Yiddish Yizkor book. Create a new Preface and Acknowledgements, Credits etc. appropriate to the publishing of the book in English.

Image Processors:

We need volunteers who can process the PDF files (600 dpi resolution) to extract the images of the photos and maps and illustrations to create individual JPEG files so that they can then be inserted into the text of the books in the proper place. Volunteers will need to have the Photoshop or similar software to accomplish the task. This will enable us to produce high quality images for the books.

Layout Editors:

Take files from the Yizkor Book website and copy into MS WORD files for each book chapter. Not necessary to proof read the material. We are printing the books as they appear on the Yizkor Books Project pages. Format the files according to a template supplied changing headings, image captions, etc into a standard format. Imbed the images from the Image Coordinator in the proper place in the text. Edit the material so that the layout has images in a place near the reference to the image. Re-editing and proof reading of material not expected.

Cover Editors for the whole project:

Create the cover using Photo Shop of some other software likely using a scan of the original Yizkor Book cover and modifying it by inserting English, laying it out on a provided template; or possibly creating a totally new cover. One or several people to do this for the whole project.

Publicity Specialist for the whole project:

Deal with publicity for books. Send out announcements to all researchers signed up for each community covered in the book to be published. Develop list of libraries, university libraries with Judaic collections, Holocaust Memorials, temple libraries, etc. that would likely be interested in purchasing copies of the “Yizkor Books in Print.” Send off periodic announcements to these institutions about new Yizkor books now available. One person or several people to do this for the whole project.

If you feel that you are able to take on one of these tasks, please contact the “Yizkor Books in Print” Coordinator – Joel Alpert

Yizkor Book Project JewishGen Home Page

Yizkor Book Project Manager, Lance Ackerfeld
Emerita Yizkor Book Project Manager, Joyce Field

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“The Yizkor-Books-In-Print project is indeed an extremely important project.”
	Professor David Patterson Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies University of Texas at Dallas
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Upon finding out that the Ohrei Yizkor Book was published and available, one researcher wrote: “I have been waiting 33 years since I first came across that book in the New York Public Library and was unable to read it because I couldn't understand Yiddish. Thanks. Will purchase it.”
*** * ***
“In a world in which fewer and fewer people speak and read Yiddish, and where many Jews outside of Israel do not read Hebrew fluently, the translation of these Yizkor books into English is a very important project. These books were frequently the first publications about a given community or a number of contiguous communities, and if for no other reason than that, they are of great significance. Although most are not works of traditional scholarship, they do contain extremely valuable information about the history of Jewish communities and their destruction, recollections and vignettes about daily life and the people who lived in those communities, and frequently lists of those who were murdered during the Shoah. Making them accessible to a wider public is important today and undoubtedly will remain important in the future. I am very pleased that the Yizkor-Books-in-Print Project of JewishGen has donated these books to our library collection and I am quite certain that our readers will find them to be of much use. For our part we hope to preserve them for future generations. ”
	Dr. Robert Rozett Director of the Libraries, Yad Vashem
*** * ***
“I have the original book in Yiddish and Hebrew but always wanted a copy of the English translation, which I haven't been able to find until now so thank you! I've ordered the book and have notified the rest of my family in the States about it.”
	Lois Gordon, MS MPH Assistant Director Hadassah Center for Clinical Quality & Safety
*** * ***
“JewishGen's Yizkor Book translations are an invaluable resource for readers who cannot read the original languages, and a welcome supplement to the Yiddish Book Center's facsimile reprints of Yizkor Books from the New York Public Library's collection. Yasher koyekh! ”
	Catherine Madsen Bibliographer Yiddish Book Center
*** * ***
“The Ciechanow Yizkor book is so precious to our family. My mother, Leah “Lonia” Kirshenbaum Mosak is a Ciechanower who survived Auschwitz Birkenau; she is now 91 years old. She will not let go of the book and reads from it every day.”
	Doris Lazarus
*** * ***
“Although the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus has just about every memorial book in the original language, we are very pleased to be able to add the English translations being offered by Jewishgen. Our English-only speaking Library users are thrilled to be able to read about their families' hometowns and possibly trace their relatives without the help of a translator. We have every Yizkor Book in Print Project title published so far and look forward to adding more as they become available. They are of the highest quality and enhance our collection immeasurably. Thank you, Jewishgen!”
	Feiga Weiss Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus Library Archive Farmington Hills, Michigan
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“As someone who has lost ancestors and family in the Holocaust, I can truly say that the Turka Yizkor book will allow my siblings and me to make the connection and pass it on to our children so we can preserve their memory.”
	Ed Nagler, Panama City, FL
*** * ***
“This review is from: Yizkor (Memorial) Book of Horodenka, Ukraine - Translation of Sefer Horodenka (Hardcover) This history of my family's home 'shtetl' contains information that was never discussed by my grandparents living here in the United States. I highly recommend this Yizkor book to everyone who has searched for information on Horodenka--and I know there are several perhaps cousins? engaged in the hunt on the Jewish Genealogy website. I'm so happy to see the translation from the original Yiddish (and German) that makes this important and valuable information accessible to everyone. Thanks for the hard work and care that went into making this Yizkor Book of Horodenka possible.”
	S. Ulanoff
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