Last week at the University of Washington in Seattle, students Ofir Horovitz, Noa Etzyon and Eiden Brewer attended the university's Undergraduate Research Symposium to share lessons learned from their

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JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 144th title: Krynki In Ruins This is the translation of Krinik in khurbn: memuarn. The book was written in Yiddish by A. Soifer. Details: Tr

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The translator for the Ukrainian-language version of the Yizkor Book of Mizoch reported a rocket strike Saturday, 15 miles north of his home in Rivne, Ukraine. Ten people were injured. Despite the cha

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“Immediately after they took my father, which happened in the first weeks of the German occupation, hunger knocked at our door. My mother who worked and sewed her whole life was broken after losing fa

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The title “Our Child Saved Us” from the Yizkor book of Voronovo (Belarus) sums up what this week’s excerpt is about. It is Kay Lisorki’s story of how she and her husband survived the ghettos and later

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JewishGen Press is proud to announce our 142nd title: The Book of Strzyzow and Vicinity (Strzyżów, Poland) Details: Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Itzhok Berglass and Shlomo Yahalomi-Diamond Project

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“The Tarnow El Capone” is a section of a long chapter titled “Memories, Personalities and Types” from the Yizkor book of Tarnow (Poland). I’m not sure how Al Capone became El Capone in this translatio

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Shalom, As you surely know, in the week that has just past, Holocaust Day was marked amongst the world’s Jewish communities. For those involved in the YB Project, memorializing the Holocaust is for us

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“The Great Rescue” from the Yizkor book of Rokitno (Ukraine) is Baruch Goldman’s memory of how he and other children escaped death at the hands of the Banderovtzis — followers of Stepan Bandera whose

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JewishGen Press is proud to announce our 141st title: Volomin; a Memorial to the Jewish Community of Volomin (Wołomin, Poland). Details: Editor of Original Yizkor Book: Shimon Kanc Project Coordinator

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Two days ago, there were reported attacks against five railway stations in Ukraine, including the rail line in Rivne. Dmytro -- our translator for the Ukrainian-language version of the Yizkor Book of

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“Reb Shabtai the Tavern Keeper” is part of a longer chapter titled “Characters and Personalities” from the Yizkor book of Rozhnyativ (Ukraine). But it is really two stories in one. The first part is a

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“Hundreds of Episodes, Curiosities and Happenings” in Kurow (Poland) is a long chapter in the Yizkor book of that town. But interwoven among all those tales is a character named Shmuel the shammes who

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This is the Yizkor book excerpt that was supposed to publish last Friday, but didn't because of difficulties with Facebook. At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books i

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Unfortunately, today's excerpt did not publish because Facebook is requiring some people who post on high volume sites to confirm their identity. I started that process today, which is supposed to tak

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Shalom, In what has become an almost regular part of the YB Project report, I am pleased, once again, to let you know that two additional Yizkor book translation projects have been completed in the mo

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“My father told me there was an expression around town: ‘He left to close the shutters (most of the houses were low) and went to America.’” “The Jews of Makow in the New World” from the Yizkor book of

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“During the Years of the Holocaust” is a long chapter from the Yizkor book of Rozniatow (Ukraine) which recounts the expulsion in 1941 of the town’s Jewish population with the choice of going to any o

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My name is Nina Schwartz. I am a volunteer graphic designer working with JewishGen on Yizkor books. Do you have old family photos from when your relatives lived in Krynki, Poland (formerly in the Russ

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“There had never before been a war such as this, just as there had never been an evil and malicious power such as this…” The chapter “Fortitude of Spirit” from the Yizkor book of Czestochowa (Poland)

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