Krynki In Ruins by A. Soifer
Translator: Beate Schützmann-Krebs From his boyhood in Krynki to partisan life in the Shalker Forest, to the ghetto, to the hunger, thirst, beatings and killings of Auschwitz and a grim succession of death camps,...
Translator: Beate Schützmann-Krebs From his boyhood in Krynki to partisan life in the Shalker Forest, to the ghetto, to the hunger, thirst, beatings and killings of Auschwitz and a grim succession of death camps,...
Strzyzow (also known as Strizev in Yiddish and Strezow in German) is today a major town in southern Poland (it was in Galicia, an Imperial Province of Austria Hungary, from 1776 to 1919). The...
Cover Art: Nina Schwartz We know Bilgoraj’s river and forest from the stories of I.B. Singer, who spent his early adulthood here. Jews lived here since the late 14th century, and before the First...
The great destruction of our days has created a background for the growth of legends, similar to the legends in the Talmud. In our book there are chapters about the destruction which should be...
Cover Art: Nina Schwartz Jaroslaw’s development was founded on its great 16th and 17th century fairs, in which Jewish merchants played a prominent part. During its triennial fall fair, the town often hosted meetings...
Editors: A Shulman, Leon Zamosc, Ada Holtzman Like all Yizkor books, the Gombin memorial book is a unique source of information about the town’s vanished Jewish community. Its narratives, testimonies and photographs offer a...
Editor: Abraham Samuel SteinCover Art: Rachel Kolokoff-Hoper The Jewish community of Kremenets was completely annihilated by the Nazi enemy along with the rest of the Jewish communities of Poland and Ukraine. Between 1 and...