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.) |
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| Antopol, Belarus | |||||||
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Shards of Memory: Messages from the Lost Shtetl of Antopol, Belarus
Edited by Alicia Esther Goldberg Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $58.95 Available on Amazon for $43, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Bender, Moldova | |||||||
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Yizkor Book of Our Birth Place: Bendery
Translation of Kehilat Bendery; Sefer Zikaron Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $65.95 Available on Amazon for around $49 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Bolekhiv, Ukraine | |||||||
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Memorial Book of Bolekhov
Translation of Sefer ha-zikaron le-kedoshei Bolechow List Price: $47.95 Available on Amazon for around $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Brańsk, Poland | |||||||
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Bransk, Book of Memories
Translation of Bransk, sefer hazikaron List Price: $57.95 Available on Amazon for around $42 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Brest, Belarus | |||||||
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Brest-Litovsk - Volume II Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora
Translation of Brisk de-Lita: Encycolpedia Shel Galuyot List Price: $56.95 Available on Amazon for around $41, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Briceni, Moldova | |||||||
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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 Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 366 pages with all illustrations. List Price: $55.95 Available on Amazon for around $40 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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Brody, Ukraine  |
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An Eternal Light: Brody, in Memoriam
Translation of Ner Tamid: Yizkor leBrody Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $65.95 Available on Amazon for around $48 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Brzeziny, Poland | |||||||
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Brzezin Memorial Book
Original Book Edited by A. Alperin and N. Summer List Price: $61.95 Available on Amazon for $45.22, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Buchach, Ukraine | |||||||
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Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Buczacz, Galicia
Original written in Hebrew List Price: $57.95 Available on Amazon for around $42, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Chişinău, Moldova |
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The Jews of Kishinev
Original Yizkor Book by Yitzchak Koren in Hebrew - 264 pages List price: $47.95 Available on Amazon for around $35 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Chorzele, Poland |
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Memorial Book of the Community of Chorzel
Editors: L. Losh, Association of Former Residents of Chorzele Published in Tel Aviv, 1967 Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for around $36 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Ciechanow, Poland | |||||||
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Memorial (Yizkor) Book for the Jewish Community of Ciechanow
Original written in Hebrew and Yiddish List price: $57.95 Available at Amazon for $42, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Częstochowa, Poland | |||||||
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The Destruction of Częstochowa
Original Book Edited by S. Waga List Price: $41.95 Available on Amazon for $31.88, may have lower prices elsewhere Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. |
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Resistance and Death in the Czenstochower Ghetto
Original Yizkor Book Editor: Liber Brener Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $45.95 Available on Amazon for around $33 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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The Maple Tree Behind The Barbed Wire (A Story of Survival from the Czestochowa Ghetto) Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for $37, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Daugavpils, Latvia | |||||||
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Remembering Dvinsk
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 320 pages with all illustrations. List Price: $48.95 Available on Amazon for $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Dębica, Poland | |||||||
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The Book of Dembitz
Translation of Sefer Dembitz Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for around $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |
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Yekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk Memorial Book
Translation of Sefer Yekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $47.95 Available on Amazon for around $35, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Dokshytsy, Belarus | |||||||
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Dokshitz-Parafianov Memorial (Yizkor) Book
Translation of Sefer Dokshitz-Parafianov List Price: $54.95 Available on Amazon for around $40, may have lower prices elsewhere Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. |
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| Drahichyn, Belarus | |||||||
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Drohitchin Memorial (Yizkor) Book 500 years of Jewish Life
Translation of Drohitchin – finf hundert yor yidish lebn List Price: $64.95 Available on Amazon for around $47, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Dubăsari, Moldova | |||||||
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Dubossary Memorial Book
Translation Project Coordinator: Sarah Faerman Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Dusetos, Lithuania | |||||||
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There Was A Shtetl In Lithuania: Dusiat Reflected In Reminiscences
Compiled by Sara Weiss-Slep List Price: $77.95 Available on Amazon for $56, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Działoszyce, Poland | |||||||
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Yizkor Book of the Jewish Community in Dzialoszyce and Surroundings
Original book Published by the Dzialoszyce Society in Israel List Price: $58.95 Available on Amazon for $43, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Galicia | |||||||
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Memorial Book of 13 Shtetls of Galicia
The Jewish Communities of Dziedzilow, Winniki, Barszczowice, Pidelisek, Pidbaritz, Kukizov, Old Jarczow,
Written by William Leibner Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $45.95 Available on Amazon for around $33 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Gol'shany, Belarus | |||||||
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The Life and Destruction of Olshan
Translation of Lebn un umkum fun Olshan
List Price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for around $36 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Goniądz, Poland | |||||||
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Memorial Book of Goniadz Poland
Translation of Sefer Yizkor Goniadz Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $43 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Gostynin, Poland | |||||||
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Book of Gostynin, Poland
Translation of Pinkas Gostynin
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 438 pages with all illustrations of the original Yizkor book. Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $53.95 Available on Amazon for around $39 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Grajewo, Poland | |||||||
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Grayewo Memorial (Yizkor) Book
Translation of Grayeve yisker-bukh (Grayewo Memorial Book) Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Prices:
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| Holocaust | |||||||
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Belzec - Stepping Stone to Genocide
Written by Robin O'Neil List Price: $54.95, Available on Amazon site for around $41 |
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| Holocaust | |||||||
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Brichah or בריחה (Hebrew for Escape or Flight)
By William Leibner List Price: $48.95 Available on Amazon for around $36 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Holocaust | |||||||
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God's Sabbatical Years The Story of Alan Weiler
By Peter Harris Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $45.95 Available on Amazon for around $33 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Holocaust | |||||||
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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 | |||||||
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Pan Kapitan of Jordanow
Complied by William Leibner Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $44.95 Available on Amazon for around $33 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Holocaust | |||||||
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Pure Soldiers Or Sinister Legion The Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division
Written by Sol Littman List Price: $12.95, Available on Amazon site for around $9.50 |
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| Holocaust | |||||||
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The Mahler Family
Written by Robin O'Neil |
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| Holocaust | |||||||
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To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona
Translations by Richard Fenwick and Raisa Moroz List Price: Available on Amazon for $18 |
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| Holocaust | |||||||
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War Criminal on Trial
Written by Sol Littman List Price: $12.95, Available on Amazon site for around $9.50 |
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| Horodenka, Ukraine | |||||||
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Yizkor (Memorial) Book of Horodenka, Ukraine
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Shimon Meltzer List price: $51.95 Available at Amazon for $41, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Jasło, Poland | |||||||
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Yizkor (Memorial) Book of the Jewish Community of Jaslo, Poland
Original written in Hebrew List price: $49.95 Available at Amazon for $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Jonava, Lithuania | |||||||
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Jonava On the Banks of the Vylia; In memory of the destroyed Jewish community of Jonava, Lithuania
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Shimon Noy, List price: $71.95 Available at Amazon for $52, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Jurbarkas (Yurburg), Lithuania | |||||||
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Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania
Original in Hebrew Edited by Zevulun Poran List price: $62 Available at Amazon for $45, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Karelichy, Belarus | |||||||
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Korelitz: The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Community
Editor of the original Yizkor Book: Michael Walzer-Fass List price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $45 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Kłobuck, Poland | |||||||
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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 List Price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Korczyna, Poland | |||||||
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Korczyna Memorial Book
Project Coordinator and Translator: William Leibner List price: $49.95 Available at Amazon for $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Kozienice, Poland | |||||||
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Memorial Book of Kozienice
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Baruch Kaplinski, Zelig Berman, Mordekhai Donnerstein, Ratze Wasserman, List price: $79.95 Available at Amazon for $53, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Krosno, Poland | |||||||
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Krosno by the Wislok River Memorial Book of Jewish Community of Krosno, Poland
Coordinator: William Leibner List price: $55.95 Available at Amazon for $40, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Lithuanian History | |||||||
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Preserving Our Litvak Heritage – Volume I (A History of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania)
Written by Josef Rosin 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 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 List Price: $65 Available on Amazon site for around $47 |
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| Lyubcha & Delyatichi, Belarus | |||||||
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Yizkor (Memorial) Book of Lyubcha and Delyatichi
Originally in Yiddish and Hebrew List price: $52.95 Available on Amazon for around $39, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Molchad, Belarus | |||||||
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Memorial Book of the Molchad (Maytchet) Jewish Community
Translation of Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Meytshet List price: $64.95 Available on Amazon for around $47, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Memoir | |||||||
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Flight to Survival
[a companion to the Czestochowa book] List Price: $41.95 Available on Amazon for $31.88, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Minsk, Belarus |
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We Remember Lest the World Forget
Produced by Memories of the Minsk Ghetto
Translated by
Hard Cover, 10” by 7”,
The original book in Russian was published by MINSK I.P. LOGVINOV PUBLISHERS 2012 Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List price: $65.95 Available on Amazon for around $45, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Navahrudak, Belarus | |||||||
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Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Novogrudok, Poland
Editors of the original Yizkor Book: Eliezer Yerushalm and David Cohen List price: $65.95 Available on Amazon for around $45, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki | |||||||
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Memorial Book of Nowy-Dwor
Original Book Edited by Aryeh Shamri and Dov Berish First
11” by 8.5”, 928 pages List price: $75.95 Available at Amazon for $55, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Nowy Sącz, Poland | |||||||
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Blood Stained Feathers The story of a Shoah survivor By Mordechai Lustig from Nowy Sącz, Poland
Translated and Edited by William Leibner List price: $55.95 Available at Amazon for $40, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Nowy Żmigród, Poland | |||||||
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Memorial Book of Nowy Zmigrod - Galicia, Poland
Compiled by William Leibner List price: $46.95 Available at Amazon for $34, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Orhei, Moldova | |||||||
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Orheyev Alive and Destroyed; Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of Orhei, Moldova
Original in Hebrew Edited by Y. Spivak Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List price: $63.95 Available at Amazon for $47, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland | |||||||
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Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland
Original written in Hebrew and Yiddish List price: $69.95 Available at Amazon for $51, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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Yizkor Book of Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland #2
Translator and Editor: Gary S. Schiff, Ph.D. List price: $52.95 Available at Amazon for $38, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Pidhaytsi, Ukraine | |||||||
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The Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Podhajce, Ukraine
Originally written in Yiddish List price: $59.95 Available at Amazon for $42, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Radyvyliv, Ukraine | |||||||
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Memorial Book of Radzivilov
Originally in Hebrew and Yiddish Edited by Ya'acov Adini
Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, List Price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $43 |
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| Radzyń Podlaski, Poland | |||||||
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Radzyn Memorial Book (Poland)
Originally in Yiddish, Hebrew and English
Translators: Nachman Goldwasser, Temy Goldwasser and Yaakov Goldwasser Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $50.95 Available on Amazon for around $37 |
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| Rietavas, Lithuania |
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Memorial book of the Ritavas Community A Tribute to the Memory of our Town
Original Book Edited by Alter Levite Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $47.95 Available on Amazon for around $35 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Rokiškis, Lithuania | |||||||
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Memorial Book of Rokiskis A Tribute to the Memory of our Town
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: M. Bakalczuk-Felin, Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $72.95 Available on Amazon for around $53 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Rokytne, Ukraine | |||||||
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Rokitno-Wolyn and Surroundings; Memorial Book and Testimony (Ukraine)
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Eliezer Leoni List Price: $69.95 Available on Amazon for around $47 |
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| Roman, Romania |
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The Jewish Community of Roman
by Pincu Pascal Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $42.95 Available on Amazon for around $31 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Romania | |||||||
| Bacău, Romania Iaşi, Romania Podu Iloaiei, Romania |
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Trilogy of Three Romanian Jewish Communities: Bacau, Iasi and Podu
Iloaiei By I. Kara
(Itsik Cara Schwartz 1906 - 2001) List Price: $56.95 Available on Amazon for around $42 |
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| Rozhnyativ, Ukraine | |||||||
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Rozniatow Memorial Book
Original written in Hebrew, Yiddish and English List Price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $44 |
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| Ruzhany, Belarus | |||||||
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Rozana: a Memorial to the Ruzhinoy Jewish Community
Original written in Hebrew and Yiddish List Price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $46 |
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| Serock, Poland | |||||||
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The Memorial Book of Serock
Translation of Sefer Serotsk – The Memorial Book of Serock (Serock, Poland) List Price: $56.95 Available on Amazon for around $41, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Siedlce, Poland | |||||||
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The Jews in Siedlce – 1850–1945
Translation of Żydzi w Siedlcach 1850-1945 List Price: $48.95 Available on Amazon for around $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Sierpc, Poland | |||||||
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The Community of Sierpc - Memorial Book
Translation of Kehilat Sierpc; Sefer Zikaron List Price: $69.95 Available on Amazon for around $51, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Slonim, Belarus | |||||||
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The 51st Brigade
The History of the Jewish Partisan Group from the Slonim Ghetto List Price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for around $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Sobrance, Slovakia | |||||||
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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 Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $45.95 Available on Amazon for around $33, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Stawiski, Poland | |||||||
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Stawiski Memorial Book (Poland)
Translation of Stawiski; sefer yizkor Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $49.95 Available on Amazon for around $36, may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Stryj, Ukraine |
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Book of Stryj
Translation of Sefer Stryj Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $66.95 Available on Amazon for around $48 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Telekhany, Belarus | |||||||
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Telekhan
Edited by: Sh. Sokoler, Published in Los Angeles, 1963 List Price: $43.95 Available on Amazon for around $32 |
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| Turka, Ukraine | |||||||
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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 List Price: $52.95 Available on Amazon for around $36 |
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| Yampol, Ukraine | |||||||
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Yampol Memorial Book 186 pages with Illustrations. List Prices:
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| Zabolotiv, Ukraine | |||||||
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A City and the Dead; Zablotow Alive and Destroyed - Memorial Book of Zabolotov
Translation of Ir u-metim; Zablotow ha-melea ve-ha-hareva Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $42.95 Available on Amazon for around $31 |
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| Zabrze, Poland | |||||||
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Zabrze (Hindenburg) Yizkor Book
By William Leibner Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $47.95 Available on Amazon for around $35 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Zbarazh, Ukraine |
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The Zbaraz Memorial Book
Original Yizkor Book Editor: Moshe Sommerstein Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book. List Price: $43.95 Available on Amazon for around $32 may have lower prices elsewhere |
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| Zgierz, Poland | |||||||
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The Book of Zgierz- An Eternal Memorial for a Jewish Community in Poland
Original Book Edited by David Shtockfish, Sh Kanc, Z. Fisher List Price: $74.95 Available on Amazon for $54.71 |
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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.” |
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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. ” | |
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| 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 | |
| “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 | |
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
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