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Located along the Skrwa River, Gostynin sits 65 miles northwest of Warsaw. The Jewish community was established in Gostynin in the 1760s, although Jews may have owned a brewery in the town as early as the 1620s. For the next 300 years, the Jewish population of Gostynin grew with Jews playing a major role in the economic, cultural, and political growth of the town.Written in 1960 by members of the Gostyniner Societies of New York, Chicago, and ...

This Yizkor Book is a unique source of information on a once vibrant town, whose Jewish population was destroyed in the Holocaust. Written after World War II by émigrés and Holocaust survivors, this Memorial Book contains narratives of the history of the town, details of daily life, religious and political figures, town characters, movements, religious and secular education, and gripping stories of the major intellectual and Zionist movements ...

Located along the Dniester River, control of the town of Bendery changed over the course of several hundred years: from the Ottoman Empire to Russia (as part of Bessarabia), from Romanian then Nazi occupation to Soviet control. Since 1992, Bendery is a city within Moldova under de facto control of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria). Surrounded by rich farmlands with excellent market transportation, in the early 1...

Between 1941 and 1943, most of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, including the towns of Dokshitz and Parfianov in Belarus, were systematically wiped out by the Nazis and local militias. The English translation of the Dokshitz-Parfianov Yizkor Book contains thirty-six personal histories, collected over a ten-year period. New appendices of material collected since the publication of the original Yizkor Book in 1970 have been added.Includ...

Jews began settling in Rokiškis in the late 17th Century. During the 19th Century, the town's importance as a regional commercial center increased with the completion of a railway line that connected it to the Baltic ports of Riga and Libau / Liepaja and to the interior of the Russian Empire. By 1897, the Jewish population had grown to 2, 067, 75% of the town's population. There was a strong Chasidic presence in the Rokiškis area, which was un...

As a boy, Alan Weiler lived in Vilna, Lithuania, a city famed for its Jewish learning. A promising student, Alan planned to attend the city's university and become a doctor. In 1941, when he was 13, Germans captured the city. The tried to flee, but were captured and brought back. Gangs began to roam the streets hunting Jews for bounty, dragging them to prison or massacre. Alan and his family were stripped of their belongings and sent to the Vi...

Translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the town of Bransk, Poland, originally written in 1948 in Yiddish by the former residents and survivors of the town. It provides a first-hand account of the life in the town before the Shoah and accounts of the destruction of this Jewish Community by the Nazis and their local collaborators.

The Jews survivors of the Shoah were traumatized. Eastern European Jews saw what happened to their families and decided to remain in the German and Austrian labor or concentration camps that were now maintained by the UNRRA. Even the Polish Jews who lived in Russia during the war decided not to return to Poland but to continue their wandering. They hardly unpacked their suitcases. Fear for their lives made them restless. Anti-Jewish incidents ...

Yizkor Book of Ostrow Mazowiecka (No. 2) This memorial book, written by a survivor, tells the fascinating story of the Jewish community of the town of Ostrow Mazowiecka (called Ostroveh by Jews), Poland, from its inception in the mid-1700s until its destruction in the Holocaust. It tells the story of conflict and compromise, early on between Hassidim and Mitnagdim, and later between traditionalists and modernists (Zionists, socialists, etc.), ...

This is not only a Yizkor Book in the traditional sense, it tells the story of a Jewish orphanage that, after the Holocaust, successfully gave Jewish children back their heritage. With the liberation of Poland, Jewish authorities in Palestine and Poland were besieged with pleas to help locate Polish Jewish children who had survived the war hidden with Christian families-many of whom did not want to relinquish them. Many had no living relatives...

Until 1940, Brichany, Bessarabia (now Briceni, Moldova) had been a thriving market town serving some 20 surrounding villages in northern Bessarabia. It was principally a Jewish town with a Christian quarter. Most earned their living as craftsmen or traders, but some were involved in tobacco farming or fruit orchards. Due to Brichany's close proximity to the Romanian and Austrian borders, there was also an important transport business. Moishe B...

Mordechai cannot fall asleep although his younger brother is fast asleep. He hears shouting and shots in the street, then his parents whispering in the next room. Suddenly there are heavy footsteps along the stairway. Screams, pleas, and pistol shots. The killer squad goes from flat to flat, then bursts into his family's flat. They kill Mordechai's father, mother and sister. They then enter Mordechai's room and kill his brother. Under the blan...

A City and the Dead, Zablotow Alive and Destroyed Memorial Book of Zabolotov, Ukraine This is a translation from: Ir u-metim, Zablotow ha-melea ve-ha-hareva A City and the Dead, Zablotow Alive and Destroyed Published in Tel Aviv by the Former Residents of Zablotow in Israel and the USA 1949 (in Hebrew and Yiddish), 218 pages May this English translation of the memorial book, A City and the Dead, Zablotow Alive and Destroyed serve as a fitting ...

Introduction to This Translation by Jack Leibman I am a retired physician, now (2016) 88, born in 1927 in Baltimore, living in San Francisco since 1951. I received my B.A. from Johns Hopkins U. in 1947, and my M.D. from U. of Maryland in 1951. Since then, I have been writing intermittently, initially in the scientific area, then more generally, mostly essays, reportage, memoirs, poetry, and a few translations from German. I knew very little ab...

This book is a translation of the Ruzhany Memorial (Yizkor) Book that was published in 1957 in Hebrew and Yiddish, it is based upon the memoirs of former Jewish residents of the town who had left before the war. Ruzhany, called "Rozana" in Polish and "Ruzhnoy" in Yiddish, is now a small town in Belarus. It was part of Russia at the time of World War I and Poland afterwards for a short period, and then the Soviet Union. In 1939, the Jewish popu...

The history of Buczacz is a microcosm of the history of Galician shtetls and yet Buczacz was a more prominent shtetl than many in Galicia. As a spiritual center for Galician Jews, Buczacz produced a number of prominent rabbis, many of whom are named in the Yizkor Book. The town was a center for scholarship as can be seen in the long list of books by Buczacz authors. Buczacz produced prominent internationally known scholars including: Shmuel Yo...

Jerzy Einhorn was fourteen years old when the war started. His father Pinkus was "the" tailor of Czestochowa -- a fact, which together with Pinkus's mental resourcefulness would help save the family. This touching memoir, which sold several hundred thousand copies when it was first published in Swedish, documents Jerzy Einhorn's life in Czestochowa before the war, during the war -- in the Czestochowa ghetto and the concentration camp Hasag-Pel...

Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Novogrudok, Poland Translation of Pinkas Navaredok, Originally Published in Hebrew and Yiddish in Tel Aviv in 1963. Have you seen the movie "Defiance" about the Bielski brothers' creation of a Jewish village in the forests of Belorussia of families of partisans, and group of Jewish partisans? Have you wondered about Jewish resistance during World War II? Are your ancestors from Novogrudok? Then...

This is the translation of the Hebrew Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Jewish community of Jaslo, Poland: "Toldot Yehudei Yaslo, " which was destroyed by the Nazis in September 1939. The Jaslo Jewish community developed late because the Polish inhabitants refused to allow Jews to live in the city until the Austrian Imperial administration granted Jews the right to reside in the city in 1860. The Jewish population expanded very rapidly and helped t...

This book is the translation of the Yizkor (Memorial) Book ( in Hebrew: Ayara be-lehavot, Pinkas Yampola, Pelekh Volyn- A City in Flames) of the destroyed Jewish Community of Yampol, Ukraine, written by the former residents who survived the Holocaust (Shoah) or emigrated before the war. It contains the history of the community in addition to descriptions of the institutions (synagogues, prayer houses), cultural activities, personalities (Rabbi...