Zuromin Memorial Book
The Holocaust Remembered
(Poland)
53°04' / 19°55'
Editor: Elimelech Szklar [Shklar]
Published: 2002, Teaneck, NJ
Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator
Sandra Krisch
This book was originally published in Tel Aviv in 1992, under the leadership
of Elimelech Szklar [Shklar] and Mendel Braun, with the assistance of Zurominers in Israel and the United States.
In 2002, the book was reprinted by the Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ.
Our sincere appreciation to Perry Rosenstein of the Puffin Foundation and Solomon Plotka
of Chevra Bikur Cholim Anshei Zuromin for permission to include this material
on the JewishGen web site and for their enthusiastic support of the project.
This is a translation from Zhuromin—Polin, sipurah shel kehila she-nichrata;
Zuromin memorial book: the Holocaust remembered
Editor: Elimelech Shklar, Published: 2002; Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
[originally published in Tel Aviv, 1992], Hebrew - 99 pages, English - 46 pages, Yiddish - 14 pages
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Editor's Note: The Zuromin Memorial Book is written in three languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. The pages in each language are numbered sequentially, beginning with Page 1. The book itself does not include a Table of Contents. For ease of reference, a list of contents, shown below, has been prepared for the material appearing in each language. Some articles appear in more than one language.
Notes from Jerrold Landau, the Hebrew translator
I was contracted by Sandra Krisch in 2007 to translate the Hebrew portions of the Zuromin Yizkor book. The Yiddish portions were translated by Gloria Freund Berkenstadt. Subsequently, in early 2008, Sandra asked me to compile and edit all of the translations, as well as the transcriptions of the English portion of the book, in preparation for publication on the JewishGen website. Here are a few notes relevant to the editing effort.
- My translation and Gloria's translation differ somewhat in style. The spelling of names and places are not entirely consistent. Gloria placed her translator's footnotes within the text in square brackets, where I placed mine as footnotes at the bottom of each section. Gloria uses a Yiddish transliteration style for Hebraic words, whereas I use a Hebrew transliteration style. Gloria (as well as the transcription of the English section) has italicized words of non-English origin, whereas I have not done so in the Hebrew translation.
- I performed some very light editing on Gloria's very fine translation, in order to correct a few obvious inconsistencies.
- The original translation of the English portion of the book had a great deal of awkward phraseology, as well as grammatical and spelling errors. I suspect that it was produced by someone who was familiar with the original Hebrew or Yiddish, but was not a native English speaker. Sandra edited it before passing it on to me, and I edited it further. In a few places, I added in a translator's note in square brackets. I did not edit it heavily, though, as I preferred to leave the style more or less intact. I corrected Polish place name spelling where I was able to resolve the place name definitively – but I was not able to resolve all. I corrected some of the obvious discrepancies in surname spelling, but left most of the others intact. Thus, there will be discrepancies in name spelling between the Hebrew, Yiddish and English sections.
- Many of the name spelling discrepancies between the Hebrew / Yiddish / English sections relate to the fact that I tended to use a Polish form of surname spelling in the Hebrew section. The English section often uses an Anglicized form of the names – probably reflecting the reality that surname spellings changed once Zuromin natives became rooted in America. The fact that different name spelling conventions are used may work to the benefit of those people using Yizkor books to research information based on family names, since in reality, multiple versions of the same surname do exist as times and eras change.
- There is a great deal of overlap between the English, Yiddish and Hebrew sections. When translating the Hebrew, I omitted any sections that appeared in the English. In the JewishGen version, these will be linked into the English section. I also omitted some sections that were repeated in the Yiddish section only. The Yiddish translation is complete, and it duplicates those sections that are repeated in the English. In fact, the Yiddish section only contains one article that is not duplicated either in the Hebrew or the English section. At the beginning of each article in the Yiddish section, I made a note about the overlap with the English or the Hebrew section.
- On reviewing the English, I noticed that in some cases, the level of detail may differ from the Hebrew and/or the Yiddish. These differences are minor, and in most cases, the English or Yiddish actually provides more detail than the Hebrew. However, it is possible that there are a few tangential facts that were included in the Hebrew but were not included in the English, and are therefore missed in the online JewishGen version. The reader will benefit from reading the duplicated translations in the Hebrew and English sections – as the differences in style and nuance between the two versions of the same article will become evident.
- Taking everything into account, I can attest that the collection of material that is being submitted for publication at JewishGen provides a very complete and detailed view of Jewish life in Zuromin, as well as important Holocaust testimonies.
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