THE
HOLOCAUST IN LITHUANIA 1941-1945: A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
This is
the culmination of over five years of research into the names of those killed in the Holocaust in
Lithuania. Following a
pilot study, and after consulting with Holocaust researchers,
it was clear that no substantive record of the names and particulars
of Lithuanian Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust existed.
The
primary aim was to locate lists relating to the Jewish men, women and children exterminated during the
Holocaust in Lithuania, and to publish
a remembrance book. By
perpetuating the name, the victim is brought
back from anonymity and an identity is preserved.
A
further objective was to structure a comprehensive database of these names.
This database can be used as a research tool to study and analyse the Jewish community of
Lithuania prior to the Nazi invasion of the
Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) on June 22, 1941, the Holocaust in Lithuania, and some patterns of
deportation.
Contacts
and working relationships were established with numerous research
institutions, Holocaust organizations and private individuals in
Israel, the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Lithuania and England. These included :
Israel:
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Yad Vashem
Hall of Names, library and archive
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Beit Lochamei Hagettaot
library and archives
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Association of
Lithuanian Jews in Israel library and archive
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Association of Vilna
Jews in Israel library and Ohel Yizkor
United States of
America:
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United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum Survivor
Registry, library, archives, and photo archives
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New York Museum of
Jewish Heritage Library,
Oral History archives
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YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research, library and
archives
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Survivors of the Shoah
Visual History Foundation
Lithuania:
Requests
for name submissions were mailed to Lithuanian survivors.
The book The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-1945: A Book of
Remembrance, by Rose Lerer Cohen and Saul Issroff, is
published by Gefen: Jerusalem and New York,
2002. A background to the history of the Holocaust
in Lithuania is given, and sections on deportations, ghettos and
camps, the Einsatzgruppen, place names, filmography, bibliography and
some personal testimonies are given. The main portions of the book are
lists of names of those who perished, from the main cities of Vilna and
Kovno and from many other mass murder areas. Necrologies derived from
Yizkor books relating to Lithuania are listed. Lists from Soviet sources
such as KGB and NKVD lists are given, as are those from Dachau, Stutthof
and other camps.
Dr
Stephen D. Smith, of Beth Shalom Holocaust Center, Nottingham, has written a
very moving introduction on the importance of names in perpetuating
Holocaust memory.
This extensive work is
comprised of four volumes. The first is a detailed history of the Holocaust
in Lithuania, providing a historical context in which to consider the final
three volumes, which feature the lists of those who were interned in
ghettos, and those who perished during the terrible years of 1941-1945. This
comprehensive history also include important information, such as a list of
Yahrzeit (Memorial) dates of Lithuanian Jewish communities, and detailed
reference lists of films, books and articles on the Lithuanian Holocaust.
The
Holocaust in Lithuania: 1941-1945 A Book of Remembrance not only serves as a
memorial to Lithuanian Jewry, but at last provides a memorial to the names
of
the men, women and children who have their place in Jewish memory, and now too,
have an eternal, physical remembrance.
Gefen Publishing Company, Jerusalem and
New York www.israelbooks.com
Published 2002, hardcover
ISBN:
| Vol I: 965-229-290-7 |
|
Vol IIb: 965-229-292-3 |
| Vol
IIa: 965-229-291-5 |
|
Vol III: 965-229-293-1 |
Pages:
| Vol I: 376 |
|
Vol IIb: 512 |
| Vol
IIa: 464 |
|
Vol III: 548 |
Israel office: POB 36004, Jerusalem
91360. Tel 972-2-538-0247 Fax 972-2-538-8423
USA office: 12 New St, Hewlett, NY
11557. Tel: 516-295-2805 Fax: 516-295-2739
These books will also be available on the JewishGen
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You may also use our searchable
database (partial).
Name Submission Form
