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XIV; 88 S.; Abb.; 8°. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband.

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Sehr gutes Ex.; neuwertig. - Introduction - List of Abbreviation and Selective bibliography - Memorial Volumes: - I Localities Memorial Volumes: - II Countries and Regions Memorial Volumes: - III Encyclopedic Volumes - Appendix I. Communities by Current Location Appendix II. Memorial Volumes by Language of Publication Appendix III. Memorial Volumes by Year of Publication Appendix IV. Memorial Volumes by Country of Publication - Index 1. Authors, Editors and Translators of Memorial Volumes I Index 2. Authors and Editors of Memorial Volumes II and III Index 3. Towns and Villages Index 4. Variant Spellings - Photographs: - Map of the Battles of the Warsaw Ghetto - Girls' school group in Piatra-Neamt, Rumania - Cantors from Vilnius - The Salus Sisters - The Salus Grandchildren - Portraits of Jews from Rumania. // Variously referred to as Sifre zikaron, Pinkasim, Megilot, Yizker bikher, and Yizkor books, memorial volumes to Eastern European Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust first appeared before the end of the Second World War. It is estimated that between 1943 to the present day, approximately 1000 communities have been commemorated in Yizkor books, the largest collection of which is housed in the Yad Vashem Library in Jerusalem. Usually written in Hebrew, Yiddish, and sometimes in both, memorial volumes evolved from the immeasurable sense of grief felt by Jewish Holocaust survivors when the war ended. Faced with the enormity of their loss, the survivors' most intense desire was to record for posterity the memory of their destroyed communities, and that of their relatives, friends and co-religionists whose lives were cut short by this abysmal tragedy. Considerable numbers of Yizkor books have thus been written and sponsored collectively by members of Landsmanshaftn organisations. These fraternal societies of Jewish immigrants and Holocaust survivors from the same towns, were formed in the post-war years in Israel, the USA, South America and other corners of the world. However, it is important to keep in mind, that memorial books in fair numbers have also been compiled by independent researchers, largely past inhabitants of the towns, who took it upon themselves to record the history of the towns' Jewish communities before and during the Holocaust. Both categories are represented in this bibliography. There is in addition a third category dedicated to Jewish victims of the Holocaust from German localities. Written in German in the past two decades, these books draw extensively on archival records, and basically provide lists of the names of victims from particular towns. Since they lack the characteristic elements identified in the former types, this group of books is therefore not represented in the bibliography. (Vorwort) ISBN 0712348204