This volume lists, in alphabetical order, the major Jewish communities that existed in Lithuania before World War II. The name of each community is accompanied by information about it: when it was founded, the Jewish population in different years, shops and synagogues, and the names of citizens. An appendix locates each town on a map of Lithuania. Since most of the Jewish communities in Lithuania were destroyed in the Holocaust, this volume will be a valuable tool in recreating a picture of Lithuanian Jewry.
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.
New Memorial (Yizkor) Book for the Jewish Community of Dvinsk ( Daugavpils), Latvia, containing a reprint of the 1965 book Dvinsk - The Rise and Decline of a Town by Yudel Flior, translated from Yiddish by Bernard Sachs and the translation of the 1975 class project In Memory of the Community of Dvinsk plus appendix of historic photographs.
A comprehensive look at Jewish history, religion, and culture covers major events in Jewish history, current events, biographies of famous and notable Jews, social and cultural aspects of Judaism, traditions and folklore, and more.
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.
August 26, 1945: Lotty Veffer arrived in Amsterdam. She was the only member of her family to have survived the war. Her parents and younger sister Carla had been gassed in Sobibor. There was no heartfelt welcome for her, and eventually she was forced to spend her first night back "home" in Amsterdam on a park bench on the Apollolaan. In September 2017, the ninety-six-year-old Lotty was honored with her own monument, a bench on the exact same spot where she had spent that first night. Lotty passed away on July 27, 2018. In Amsterdam alone there are more than eighty monuments created to remember the Holocaust. There are still many more locations that tell parts of the story: buildings, squares, and streets that were once silent witnesses to the darkest page in the city's history. The ninety-five vignettes in Lotty's Bench explore these monuments and locations to make clear how inextricably Amsterdam's history is linked to the persecution of its Jews.