When I undertook the translation of this volume of Yizkor Book, I did so both in order to find out about the history of the Jews of Lwów and in memory of Lwów’s Jews who found their end at the hands of the barbaric German Nazis and their indigenous sympathisers during WWII. In memory of the Jews whose past existence in the place was wiped out by destroying historical records and flattening historic Jewish cemeteries. In memory of those members of my paternal family who remained in Lwów when the Nazis invaded, in particular in memory of my grandmother, Antonina Ecker née Reiss.

Ever since the Molotov-Ribbentrop, German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of the 23rd August 1939, Lwów, or Lemberg, the capital of Galicia which had been part of Poland, became part of the Soviet Union, but today, as part of western Ukraine, it is known as Lviv. Nevertheless, throughout this translation I tried to keep the name of towns, districts and individuals as they were known and spelt during the period when Polish was the spoken language, a language in which the major historical research into the history of the Jews in the area was published.

During my translation of this work I received assistance in clarifying some names and expressions, and I should like to extend my thanks to:

Wojciech Janik, librarian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London.
Erla Zimmer, librarian at the London School of Jewish Studies, London.
Librarians at the Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw.

The anomalies which occur regarding some footnotes were transferred from the original text.

Throughout this translation the comments in square brackets were added by myself.