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This book is the translation of the Yizkor or Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of Rovno, Ukraine. It describes the vibrant life in the town before the Holocaust, including details of the society, the institutions, the organizations, the rabbis, the town characters and then the eye-witness accounts of the Shoah by survivors.

This Yizkor book of the Shebreshiner community, one of the more than one thousand Jewish communities in Poland destroyed, is published 42 years after the massacres in the shtetl, and 39 years after the defeat of the Nazi regime and the end of the Second World War. Is it not too late? Is it not in the sense of too little, too late? Has not everything already been written about the destruction of Jewish life in Poland? Has the material not alrea...

If history is made by ordinary people then this book is history at its core. There is a refreshing honesty in these writings, portraying town-folk, foibles and all, in their humility and worldly-wisdom. Everyday acts of kindness and humor abound. One town resident, Tsvi Krizovski, became fascinated with photography in the early 20th Century, assuming the role of unofficial town photographer. Krizovski's photographs capture the spirit of Diveni...

Jews of Kaiserstrasse vividly details the fate of the Jewish residents of single street in Mainz, Germany from 1939-45. This book is the culmination of Michael Phillips' meticulous research into the lives of approximately 300 individuals that at one point during the period covered lived on the impressive boulevard. It catalogues the destruction of the wealthy Jewish community, which, before the rise of German National Socialism and the impleme...

This is the Memorial Book of Akkerman and the Towns of its District (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy, Ukraine).Translation of Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz, sefer edut ve-zikaron , Tells the history of the Jewish community from its establishment until its destruction in the holocaust.

TOWN OF BAR: Jewish Pages Through The Prism Of TimeThe history of Jewish community of the town of Bar, Ukraine. From the beginning of the establishment of the Jewish community in the town of Bar until its destruction in the holocaust. The book describes the history thru the prism of time.

Book of Kobrin: The Scroll of Life and Destruction(Kobryn, Belarus)The story of the Jewish community of Kobryn, Belarus, The Scroll of Life and Destruction

On May 11, 1942, German military police and local auxiliaries entered Voronova, gathering all Jewish residents in the Market Square. SS Commandant Vindish pronounced the Reichstag's verdict of 1938: all Jews were responsible for the troubles of the German people and of all humanity, and were condemned to death, and now was the time to carry out that verdict. Some 2, 300 were massacred that day: while they breathed their last air they were pile...

The town of Staszów, about 64 miles northeast of Kraków and 118 miles south of Warsaw, lies along the Czarna River 10 miles northwest of the Vistula at Polaniec. Staszów existed as a village from 1245 and as a town from 1526, when it already had an organized Jewish population. Always a center of local commerce, Staszów began important industrial development in textiles from the 1780s onward and in shoe manufacture from around 1900 onward, in a...

Vishnevets, Ukraine, located on the higher north shore of the Horyn River, first had Jewish residents at the end of the 11th or 12th century. Later, it was the base of the principality of the Polish Wisniowiecki family. At the end of the 14th century, Prince Jeremi Wisniowiecki established the town of New Vishnevets across the river from what became known as Old Vishnevets, with the two parts of the town connected by a bridge. By the 17th cent...

The editors of the Suwalki Memorial Book write: "In our memorial book we give expression to the last breath and cry of pain of our holy martyrs, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our dearest and most beloved, who were thrown into the gas chambers, into the deep pits, burned, shot, smothered, their last prayers and screams cut off and silenced by the Nazi executioners. We want this memorial book to perpetuate their unfinished prayers. Thei...

This is Part II (Shoah) of the translation of the memorial book of the destroyed 23 Jewish communities of the Sventzian region of Lithuania.

This is Part I (LIfe) of the translation of the Memorial book of the twenty - three destroyed Jewish communities of the Sventzian region of Lithuania. Jews had lived in Svencionys (now Lithuania) since the 14th century.Between the two world wars, as part of independent Poland, it was the head of a district of 23 towns with sizeable Jewish communities-including Nowo Svencionys, Ignalino, Davgielski, Dukszty, Oduciski, Lingmiany, Lyntupy, Mieleg...

This is the translation of Ratno, Ukraine Yizkor Book, The Story of the Destroyed Jewish Community, The marshy garrison town of Ratno-Which at different times would be part of Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine-began on the banks of the Pripyat River in the 14th century. Jewish presence there grew from about 12 families in 1565 to 1, 554 people, or 64.5% of the population, in 1921. Jews were active in the town's civic life, some became city counci...

Translation of the Yizkor or Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of Belchatow, Poland. This book serves as a memorial to this destroyed Jewish Community.The Original Yizkor Book was published by The Central Federation Of Polish Jews In Argentina Together With The Belchatow Society In Argentina, Brazil, And South America Buenos Aires, 1951. The editiors of the orginal Yiddish book wrote:"Our only intention in publishing this Yizkor Book was t...

This book shows history in the making with the German and Soviet forces of World War II cooperating and then competing in the invasion and occupation of Sokoly Poland. The reader can understand the stages through which the Nazi rule turns the Jewish population into slaves who work in tasks designed to break their spirit and their bodies. Short of food, clothing, and shelter, the town's Jewish refugees seek refuge among their neighbors, but all...

This is the English Translation of the Memorial Book of the town of Tluste (Tovste), Ukraine. It will serve as a memorial to the Jewish community.Prior to World War II, Tluste (now Tovste, Ukraine) was a flourishing Polish market town with a Jewish presence dating back to the 1700s. Over the next two centuries, Jews came to comprise two-thirds of the population. Tluste is famously associated with the Ba'al Shem Tov, the spiritual founder of Ha...

This is the English translation of the Memorial(Yizkor) book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Smorgon now in Belarus.This book contains first-hand descriptions of the rich life of the Jewish community of Smorgon before the Shoah and eye- witness accounts of its destruction. It was written by emigrees and survivors of the town most of whom were living in Israel.May this book serve as a memory to those who perished and the community that was...

This is the translation of the Memorial or Yizkor Book of the Jewish Community of Wyszków, Poland. The town of Wyszko¿w, about 35 miles northeast of Warsaw, lies along the Bug River. Jewish people started to inhabit the town in the late 1700s and were en- gaged as merchants and craftsmen. In the 19th and 20th centuries, they began to engage with small trade. Before World War I, Jews owned various businesses such soda water factories, ice cream...

This is the English translation of the memorial book of the destroyed Jewish Communities of Miechov, Charsznica and Ksiaz, PolandThis book contains first-hand descriptions of the rich life in these Jewish communities before the Shoah and eye-witness accounts of its destruction.The stories in this book provide a great insight into the lives of the people who lived there and a revelation of the support that they provided in the founding of the S...