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Memorial (Yizkor) Book for the Jewish Community of Ciechanow - Translation of Yisker-Bukh Fun Der Tshekhanover Yidisher Kehile
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 119.67 $Jews were living in Ciechanow by the year 1569. In 1656 during the Polish-Swedish war most of the Jews were killed by the troops of Stephan Czarniecki. In 1765, 1,670 Jews were living in the town; in 1856 Jews comprised 2,226 of the 3300 residents; in 1897 4,223 Jews of 10,000 residents; in 1921 4,403 out of 11,977, and about 5,500 Jews in 1925. During this period a rich Jewish culture developed. Before the outbreak of World War II, the Jewish population had decreased to 1,500 to 2,000. It all came to an end when he Nazis entered the town on Sept. 3 and 4, 1939. Deportations began on December 1941 and ended in November 1942, when 1,800 Jews were sent to other ghettos and Auschwitz. About 200 Jews from the town survived the war, including 120 who had sought refuge in the U.S.S.R. The Jewish community seized to exist after World War II. This book was written by Shoah survivors from Ciechanow and by residents who had emigrated before the war, thereby preserving the history and memory of the Jewish community of Ciechanow with their first-hand accounts. The book is of high value to researchers and descendants of Ciechanow, who want to know about the town of their ancestors. The town is known as Ciechanow [Polish], Tshekhanov [Yiddish], Tsekhanuv [Russian], and Chechinov, Chekhanov, Chekhanove, Zichenau [German, 1939-45]. Ciechanow, Poland is located at 52°53' North Latitude and 20°37' East Longitude, and is 47 miles NNW of Warsaw.
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Drohitchin Memorial (Yizkor) Book - 500 Years of Jewish Life (Drohiczyn, Belarus) Translation of Drohitchin - Finf Hundert Yor Yidish Lebn
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 144.15 $This is the translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Jewish community of Drohichin, Belarus. This history of Drohitchin/Drahichyn --in Belarus -- covers the nearly 500-year old Jewish community that had almost 5,000 Jewish residents at the start of World War II. This book is both history and memoir, and it includes poetry, tributes, and many photos. Also contained is a necrology of the Shoah victims from Drohitchin and nearby towns murdered in the two Drohitchin massacres ( July 25 and October 15, 1942). Former Drohitchin residents and descendants contributed first-hand accounts to this book so that future generations could learn about the long history of this once vibrant Jewish community. Read and treasure this heart-wrenching account of a Jewish world that no longer exists. Drohitchin is located 40 miles W of Pinsk, 33 miles East of Kobryn, 16 miles East of Antopol. [Not to be confused with the smaller town of Drohiczyn, Poland, 49 miles WNW of Brest]. Alternate names for the town: Drahichyn [Belarussian], Drogichin [Russsian], Drohiczyn [Polish], Drohitchin [Yiddish], Drahitschyn [German], Drogičinas [Lithuanian], Drohichin, Drohiczyn Poleski, Drahičyn, Dorohiczyn. Published by the Yizkor Books in Print Project , part of Yizkor Books Project of JewishGen, Inc. 736 pages, 8.5" by 11", hard cover, including all photos and other images and new lists of residents compiled recently
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Grajewo Memorial (Yizkor) Book (Grajewo, Poland) - Translation of Grayeve Yisker-Bukh
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 35.18 $This is the translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Jewish community of Grajewo, Poland. 358 pages, 8.5" by 11", hard cover, including all photos and other images. Jews have been living in Grajewo, in the province of Bialystok, Poland since the late 17th century. The 1765 census counted 83 Jewish people and by 1857, the number had grown to 1,457 comprising 76% of the town's population. By 1921, the percentage of Jews had decreased to 39%. In 1933 anti-Jewish outbreaks occurred in Grajewo. During the Soviet occupation, between September 1939 and June 1941, Jewish businesses were nationalized. The invastion of Grajewo on 22 June 1941 by the Nazis marked the beginning of the devastation and horrors thrust upon the Jewish population. Within a few months, 1,600 to 2,000 Jews had been sent to the transit camp at Bogosza and on to the extermination camps at Treblinka and Auschwitz. The United Grayever (Grajewo) Relief Committee memorialized the Jewish Community of Grajewo by publishing the original Yiddish Yizkor book in 1950. Now it is available in English for current and future generations to learn of the rich history of this community. Grajewo is located at 53°39' North Latitude and 22°27' East Longitude 114 mi NNE of Warsaw in Poland. Alternate names for the town are: Grajewo [Polish], Grayavah [Yiddish], Graevo [Russian], Grayeve, Grayevo Nearby Jewish Communities: · Szczuczyn 8 miles SW · Wąsosz 11 miles SSW · Rajgród 12 miles ENE · Ełk 13 miles NNW · Goniądz 17 miles SE · Radziłów 17 miles S · Stawiski 23 miles SSW · Trzcianne 24 miles SSE · Jedwabne 26 miles SSW · Augustów 26 miles ENE · Kolno 27 miles SW · Sztabin 27 miles E · Raczki 27 miles NNE · Suchowola 27 miles E · Knyszyn 30 miles SE
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Drohitchin Memorial (Yizkor) Book - 500 Years of Jewish Life (Drohiczyn, Belarus) Translation of Drohitchin - Finf Hundert Yor Yidish Lebn
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 50.99 $This is the translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Jewish community of Drohichin, Belarus. This history of Drohitchin/Drahichyn --in Belarus -- covers the nearly 500-year old Jewish community that had almost 5,000 Jewish residents at the start of World War II. This book is both history and memoir, and it includes poetry, tributes, and many photos. Also contained is a necrology of the Shoah victims from Drohitchin and nearby towns murdered in the two Drohitchin massacres ( July 25 and October 15, 1942). Former Drohitchin residents and descendants contributed first-hand accounts to this book so that future generations could learn about the long history of this once vibrant Jewish community. Read and treasure this heart-wrenching account of a Jewish world that no longer exists. Drohitchin is located 40 miles W of Pinsk, 33 miles East of Kobryn, 16 miles East of Antopol. [Not to be confused with the smaller town of Drohiczyn, Poland, 49 miles WNW of Brest]. Alternate names for the town: Drahichyn [Belarussian], Drogichin [Russsian], Drohiczyn [Polish], Drohitchin [Yiddish], Drahitschyn [German], Drogičinas [Lithuanian], Drohichin, Drohiczyn Poleski, Drahičyn, Dorohiczyn. Published by the Yizkor Books in Print Project , part of Yizkor Books Project of JewishGen, Inc. 736 pages, 8.5" by 11", hard cover, including all photos and other images and new lists of residents compiled recently
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Shards of Memory: Messages from the Lost Shtetl of Antopol, Belarus - Translation of the Yizkor (Memorial) Book of the Jewish Community of Antopol
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 32.42 $This memorial book of the Jewish Community of Antopol, Belarus weaves together the history of a vibrant Jewish community, annihilated during World War II, as told through first-hand accounts gathered from its original inhabitants. These stories edited and translated from Yiddish and Hebrew are dedicated to the Antopol survivors and the memory of the 3,000 martyrs, whose names and stories fill these pages. May these messages reach the hearts of the readers as a reminder of the enduring strength of the Jewish Heritage. This book can serve as a research resource of first-hand accounts of the Jewish community of Antopol, Belarus and a personal history book for the descendants of the town.
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Shards of Memory: Messages from the Lost Shtetl of Antopol, Belarus - Translation of the Yizkor (Memorial) Book of the Jewish Community of Antopol
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 42.49 $This memorial book of the Jewish Community of Antopol, Belarus weaves together the history of a vibrant Jewish community, annihilated during World War II, as told through first-hand accounts gathered from its original inhabitants. These stories edited and translated from Yiddish and Hebrew are dedicated to the Antopol survivors and the memory of the 3,000 martyrs, whose names and stories fill these pages. May these messages reach the hearts of the readers as a reminder of the enduring strength of the Jewish Heritage. This book can serve as a research resource of first-hand accounts of the Jewish community of Antopol, Belarus and a personal history book for the descendants of the town.
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Jonava On the Banks of the Vylia: In memory of the destroyed Jewish community of Jonava, Lithuania
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 56.11 $This Yizkor Book is a unique source of information on a once vibrant town, whose Jewish population was destroyed in the Holocaust. Written after World War II by émigrés and Holocaust survivors, this Memorial Book contains narratives of the history of the town, details of daily life, religious and political figures, town characters, movements, religious and secular education, and gripping stories of the major intellectual and Zionist movements of the 20th century and finally first-hand accounts of the Shoah. The necrologies and lists of residents are of tremendous genealogical value, as often the names of individuals who were taken to extermination camps or shot in the forests are not recorded elsewhere. Written in Hebrew and Yiddish, this important book has until now been accessible only to those who can read these languages. Thus, the translation of this Yizkor Book into English unlocks this information to many more researchers all over the world.
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