Yizkor Book Links

The following additional resources can provide valuable information on finding a Jewish community or a Yizkor book:

JewishGen's JewishGen Communities Database provides Soundex searching of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names database of all centeral and eastern European communities, and gives current name, latitude/longitude, and map location.
Where Once We Walked: Revised Edition; A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust. by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon (Bergenfield NJ: Avotaynu, 2002), locates 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews resided, and indicates sources of information on each community.
Historical Atlas of East Central Europe, by Paul Robert Magocsi (Seattle & London: Univ. of Washington Press, 1993) describes historical boundary changes for countries and administrative districts in East Central Europe.

JewishGen KehilaLinks Project provides information and resources on a number of communities, as provided by JewishGen members.
JewishGen Family Finder lists genealogists interested in a particular Jewish community.
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is an online index of Jewish vital records for Poland.

Amherst, MA: National Yiddish Book Center. Catalog of digitized yizkor book reprints for sale. http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books
Boston, MA: Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area, by Warren Blatt (Newton MA: JGS of Greater Boston, 1996).
Detroit, MI: Memorial Book Collection of the Holocaust Memorial Center, West Bloomfield, MI.
Israel: A Guide to Genealogical Resources in Israel, Revised Edition, by Sallyann Amdur Sack and the Israel Genealogical Society (Teaneck NJ: Avotaynu, 1995).
New Haven, CT: Yale University Libraries. Yizkor Books.
New York, NY: Genealogical Resources in New York.
New York, NY:New York Public Library, Dorot Division. Online digital images of entire yizkor books.
Portland, OR: Yizkor Books at Congregation Neveh Shalom
San Francisco, CA: Yizkor Books in the Holocaust Center of Northern California.
Seattle, WA: Yizkor Books in the Seattle area.
St. Louis, MO: Yizkor Books in the Special Collections Department, St. Louis County Library.
Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library. Online Catalog.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress. Online Catalog.

From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry, Second Expanded Edition, edited and translated by Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin, with Geographical Index and Bibliography by Zachary M. Baker. (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, June 1998).
How To Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust, by Gary Mokotoff (Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, 1995), Appendix A, Towns with Published Yizkor Books.
From Generation to Generation, Revised Edition, by Arthur Kurzweil (New York: HarperCollins, 1994).

Yizkor Book Director, Lance Ackerfeld
Emerita Yizkor Book Project Manager, Joyce Field z”l