Yizkor Books

As memorials to Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust Yizkor Books are indispensable sources of information regarding Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe. The majority of these books often by former residents were written in Hebrew or Yiddish, occasionally with an English summary. Thanks to the ongoing support of Mr. and Mrs. David Lewis and of the Catherine Lewis Foundation the Library holds a collection more than 850 Yizkor Books, the largest unified and open-access collection of this literature in Europe. See catalogue YIZKOR.

The collection is included in the Yizkor Book Project (www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/database.html), which provides a Shtetl Seeker/Town search (www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker).