print email comment close Yizkor Book Project URL: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ Description: This site, sponsored by the JewishGen genealogy group, features translations of more than 580 Yizkor books originally written in Yiddish. "Yizkor books were written after the Holocaust as memorials to Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. They were usually put together by survivors from those communities and contain descriptions and histories of the shtetl, biographies of prominent people, lists of people who perished, etc." Also includes information about libraries with Yizkor book collections. Publisher: JewishGen, Inc. Extra Keywords genealogy Library of Congress Subject Headings: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews -- Europe, Eastern Memorial books (Holocaust) LII Database Information: Record 10817 created by Dennis Maness on 05/26/2004 Last modification on 07/06/2004 Published: 05/26/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/10817