The JewishGen Yizkor Book Master Name Index
The JewishGen Yizkor Book Master Name Index
(“YBMNI”) is a master index of all persons mentioned in
the translated portions of the Yizkor Books on the
JewishGen Yizkor Book Project
website.
This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back
to the Yizkor Book itself, where more information may be available.
This database allows the surnames to be searched phonetically and
via soundex.
Because most of these names were transliterated from Hebrew and Yiddish,
the spellings of the surnames may not be as you are used to seeing them
in Latin-alphabet sources.
How do I get the best Search Results?
Contents of the Database
This database currently contains more than
90,000 entries, indexed from
132 different Yizkor Books, including:
Town |
Country |
Yizkor Book |
Description |
# of entries |
Ashmiany | Belarus |
Sefer Zikaron le-kehilat Oshmana |
index of names listed in the book | 200 |
Babruysk | Belarus |
Bobroysk: Sefer Zikaron li-Kehilat Bobroysk u-Venoteha |
paid family memorials | 180 |
Będzin | Poland |
Pinkas Bendin |
Index of Będzin Yizkor book | 2,144 |
Częstochowa | Poland |
Czenstochov: our legacy | Index to "The Jews of Częstochowa" |
2,908 |
Dusetos | Lithuania |
Ayara Hayeta B'Lita; Dusiat B'Rei Hazichronot |
list of interviewees for the book | 150 |
Gąbin | Poland |
Gombin Memories |
Duma Czarist Voters List | 339 |
Grodno | Belarus |
Grodno; Volume IX, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora |
index of names in photo captions | 601 |
Kielce | Poland |
Sefer Kielce. Toldot Kehilat Kielce. Miyom Hivsuduh V'ad Churbanah |
Book name index | 1,902 |
Lenin | Belarus |
Kehilat Lenin; sefer zikaron |
list of photographs | 218 |
Lipno | Poland |
Sefer Lipno. Skepe, Lubicz ve-ha-sevivah |
List of names appearing in text | 130 |
Motol' | Belarus |
Hurban Motele |
index of names listed in the book | 230 |
Nadvornaya | Ukraine |
Nadworna; sefer edut ve-zikaron |
1932 Tax payers List | 332 |
Nowy Targ | Poland |
Sefer Nowy Targ ve-ha-seviva |
List of names from Yizkor book | 242 |
Novy Yarichev | Ukraine |
Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; sefer zikaron le-kedoshei Jaryczow y-sevivoteha |
List of survivors | 102 |
Pochayev | Ukraine |
Pitshayever yisker-bukh |
Tombstone List | 324 |
Przemyśl | Poland |
Sefer Przemysl |
Index of names from Yizkor book | 778 |
Radomsko | Poland |
Sefer yizkor le-kehilat Radomsk ve-ha-seviva |
List of Radomskowers who died in Israel | 101 |
Radomyśl Wielki | Poland |
Radomysl Rabati ve-ha-seviva; sefer yizkor |
Addresses of the people of Radomyśl Wielki | 188 |
Šiauliai | Lithuania |
Azoy zaynen mir gestorbn |
Index of names in book | 165 |
Slutsk | Belarus |
Pinkas Slutsk u-benoteha |
index of names yizkor book | 2,332 |
Sokoły | Poland |
Sokoly: B'maavak l'haim |
photo name - identification list | 526 |
Tarnów | Poland |
Tarnow; kiyuma ve-hurbana shel ir yehudit |
Book Index | 1,164 |
Thessaloníki | Greece |
Zikhron Saloniki; gedulata ve-hurbana shel Yerushalayim de-Balkan |
Inscriptions on tombs of pre-Holocaust deaths | 79 |
Tomaszów Mazowiecki | Poland |
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Tomaszow Mazowiecki |
List of headstones | 1,064 |
Tysmenytsya | Ukraine |
Tismenits; a matseyve oyf di khurves fun a farnikheter yidisher kehile |
Index of names | 595 |
Voronovo | Belarus |
Voronova; sefer zikaron le-kedoshei Voronova she-nispu be-shoat ha-natsim |
list of survivors | 72 |
Włoszczowa | Poland |
Vlotsheve. Żydzi we Włoszczowie w latach 1867-1942 |
List of community members | 239 |
Updates to the Database
If your town is not in the above list, please consider creating
an index of the people mentioned in your ancestral town's Yizkor Book,
and submitting it to the Yizkor Book Project so that it can then
be added to this ongoing effort. See the JewishGen Yizkor Book
Project's donation procedures.
This database was created with the assistance of
Linda Richman,
the YBMNI Project Manager. The previous Project Manager was
Osnat Hazan. The YBMNI Project manager coordinates the
extraction of the names from individual Yizkor Book translations,
and inputs them into Excel spreadsheets, which are then imported
into this database.
The visible fields in the database are:
- Surname
- Given Name(s)
- Town Name, which is linked to the source,
the original Yizkor Book where this entry appears
- Page Number(s)
- Notes / Comments
As approximately 100 new Yizkor Book translations are added to the
JewishGen Yizkor Book Project each year, this database will be added to
over time. There are currently over 800 individual translations
on the web site.
Finding sources
To find the original source, click on the name of the town in the
the displayed table of matching names.
This will lead you to a bibliographic citation of the source
Yizkor Book which contains that name.
On that page, which contains full information about that Yizkor Book,
there is a field labelled "Translation", which contains a clickable
URL to the translated portions of that Yizkor Book on the
JewishGen web site.
For more information about Yizkor Books, see the
JewishGen Yizkor Book Project.
Last Update: 3 Feb 2011 WSB
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