IGS - Yizkor Books

Memorial Books for Lost Communities

Memorial books were written after the Shoah by survivors of the vanished Jewish communities (towns and villages) in remembrance of what was once their own Jewish communities. For each city, memorial books offer a vivid portrait of the Jewish life before World War II, presenting the history of the Jewish settlement, the local celebrities, the achievements and the Jewish institutions. They chronicle the destruction of the communities during the Holocaust, they tell the stories of those heroes and martyrs who fought against the Nazis and their associates, and they often serve as a tombstone to the memory of those who perished.