Yizkor Books - Update

Posted by Lance Ackerfeld

Shalom,

Well the holidays are over (for now) which seems to hint that we should get back to work. Still, I don't think that the Yizkor Book Project should be ashamed of our activity over the last month. I was particularly happy to see the renewal of a number of long standing projects and I hope this trend continues.

Note that the YB Project exists through a great number of volunteers who translate, transliterate, transcribe and edit material which becomes part of the various translation projects and I send out my deep appreciation for the very heartwarming dedication and involvement of these many wonderful people in the YB Project.

Now to figures. During this last month we have added these 4 new projects:

• Bol'shoy Zhelutsk, Ukraine (Memorial Book of the Community of Zoludzk)
• Frampol, Poland (Frampol book)
• Khust, Ukraine (The Jewish community in Chust and its surrounding villages)
• Novoseltsy, Ukraine (Nova Sulita)

Added 3 new entries:

• Karcag, Hungary (Pinkas Hungary)
• Przemysl, Ukraine (Pinkas Poland)
• Soly, Belarus (Pinkas Poland)

We have continued to update 29 of our existing projects:

• Bedzin, Poland (A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Bedzin)
• Czestochowa, Poland (The Jews of Czestochowa)
• Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland (Book of the Jewish community of Dabrowa Gornicza and its destruction)
• Debica, Poland (The Book of Dembitz)
• Dotnuva, Lithuania (Letters from Dotnuva)
• Gorodets, Belarus (Horodetz; history of a town, 1142-1942)Grajewo, Poland (Grayewo Memorial Book)
• Halmeu, Romania (In memory of the communities of Halmin-Turcz and vicinity)
• Jewish Music in Poland between the World Wars
• Kaluszyn, Poland (The Memorial Book of Kaluszyn)
• Karelichy, Belarus (Korelitz; the life and destruction of a Jewish community)
• Katowice, Poland (Katowice: the Rise and Decline of the Jewish community; Memorial Book)
• Kutno, Poland (Kutno and Surroundings Book)
• Lithuania (Lite, vol.2)
• Lithuania (Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities, Lithuania)Merkine, Lithuania (Meretch; a Jewish Town in Lithuania)
• Ostrow-Mazowiecka, Poland (Memorial Book of the Community of Ostrow-Mazowiecka)
• Rivne, Ukraine (Rowno; a memorial to the Jewish community of Rowno, Wolyn)
• Rokiskis, Lithuania (Yizkor book of Rakishok and environs)
• Sanok, Poland (Memorial Book of Sanok and Vicinity)
• Serock, Poland (The Book of Serock)
• Siedlce, Poland (On the ruins of my home; the destruction of Siedlce)
• Slutsk, Belarus (Slutsk and vicinity memorial book)Stolin, Belarus (Stolin; a memorial to the Jewish communities of Stolin and vicinity)
• Svencionys, Lithuania (Svinzian region; memorial book of 23 Jewish communities)
• Svir, Belarus (There once was a town Swir; between the two world wars)
• Tykocin, Poland (Memorial book of Tiktin)
• Valkininkai, Lithuania (Olkeniki in flames; a memorial book to the community of Olkenik in the Vilna district)
• Zelechow, Poland (Memorial Book of the Community of Zelechow) - [Polish]
  

Please remember that all this month's additions and updates have been flagged here to make it easy to find them.

All the best,
Lance Ackerfeld
Yizkor Book Project Manager