A part of the Yizkor books' shelves at the reading room at Yad Vashem library
Yizkor books (Yiddish: יזכור־בּוך, romanized: Yizkor-bukh, plural: יזכור־בּיכער, Yizkor-bikher) are memorial books commemorating a Jewish community destroyed during the Holocaust. The books are published by former residents or landsmanshaft societies as remembrances of homes, people and ways of life lost during World War II. Yizkor books usually focus on a town but may include sections on neighboring smaller communities.
Most of these books are written in Yiddish or Hebrew, some also include sections in English or other languages, depending on where they were published.
Since the 1990s, many of these books, or sections of them have been translated into English, digitized, and made available online.
Yizkorbooks (Yiddish: יזכור־בּוך, romanized: Yizkor-bukh, plural: יזכור־בּיכער, Yizkor-bikher) are memorial books commemorating a Jewish community destroyed...
p. xv. ISBN 978-0-300-04966-4. "YizkorBooks". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 20 December 2018. "YizkorBooks in the YIVO Library". YIVO Institute...
scholarly literature on the Holocaust is massive, encompassing thousands of books. The tendency to see the Holocaust as a unique or incomprehensible event...
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through mass deportations or liquidations. Many are memorialized in yizkorbooks, written testimonies that describe the histories of Jewish communities...
Documentary. Berlin: Schocken Books. ISBN 0-8052-5008-5. Evans, Richard J. (2008). The Third Reich at War. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-311671-4. Fischel...
3 million times. The David and Sylvia Steiner YizkorBooks Collection comprises hundreds of yizkorbooks, memorial volumes commemorating Jewish communities...
Society of Great Britain (JGSGB) JewishGen USA Database YizkorBooks: Translates YizkorBooks, predominantly written after the Holocaust, into English...
TU's Albert S. Cook Library, including special collections of rare books, Yizkorbooks, a collection of items related to Jewish cultural reconstruction...
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deportations statistics. Thus, Y. Arad writes, that he had to rely, in part, on Yizkorbooks of Jewish ghettos, which were not guaranteed to give the exact estimates...
the hands of Stalin. by Ruth Franklin, NY Review of Books, October 21, 2021. review of three books: • In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million...
activities of Sir Moses Montefiore, one of the largest collections of YizkorBooks in Europe – it counts over 800 memorial volumes for communities destroyed...
Remembrance (Canada) Condolence book Gedenkbuch Yizkorbooks (2019, April 3). "History of the Books of Remembrance". Veterans Affairs Canada. Retrieved...
Lucy S. (1986). The war against the Jews, 1933–1945. New York: Bantam Books. p. 403. ISBN 0-553-34302-5. Himka, John-Paul (2024). "Antisemitism in Ukraine"...
Cambridge University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-521-55878-5 – via Google Books. Gutman, Yisrael (1989). The First Months of the Nazi Occupation. Indiana...
had been imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto. Fern Schumer Chapman wrote two books about the Holocaust. The first Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust – A Mother-Daughter...
Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II. Amherst: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-0-87975-752-6. Goldstein, Ivo; Goldstein, Slavko (2016). The Holocaust...
Films Lessons Memorials and museums Uniqueness Armenian genocide and the Holocaust Humor Righteous Among the Nations Yad Vashem Yizkorbooks "Never again"...
Films Lessons Memorials and museums Uniqueness Armenian genocide and the Holocaust Humor Righteous Among the Nations Yad Vashem Yizkorbooks "Never again"...
Films Lessons Memorials and museums Uniqueness Armenian genocide and the Holocaust Humor Righteous Among the Nations Yad Vashem Yizkorbooks "Never again"...
Films Lessons Memorials and museums Uniqueness Armenian genocide and the Holocaust Humor Righteous Among the Nations Yad Vashem Yizkorbooks "Never again"...
Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies, 1940 to 1970 Lexington Books, 2005 ISBN 0-7391-1146-9 Pages 65–66 Dommen, Arthur J.The Indochinese Experience...
and in 2018 selected to be one of the 10 best Scandinavian non-fiction books published after 2000. The author of a 2014 book (Den største forbrytelsen)...
timeline Marrus, Michael Robert; Paxton, Robert O. (1995) [1st pub. Basic Books (1981)]. Vichy France and the Jews. Stanford University Press. pp. xv, 243–245...
(2000). The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania. Berghahn Books. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-965-308-084-3. Vanagaitė, Rūta (2016). Mūsiškiai...
Films Lessons Memorials and museums Uniqueness Armenian genocide and the Holocaust Humor Righteous Among the Nations Yad Vashem Yizkorbooks "Never again"...
ISBN 0-691-09603-1 – via Google Books. Sanford, George (2005). Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940: Truth, Justice and Memory (Google Books). Routledge. pp. 20–24...
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