Memorial Books of Jewish Communities, 1943-2003

Brief Description:

Memorial books as narratives took primary focus on anti-Jewish upheavals. Some publication may start as early as the 17th Century, the turbulent time in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth when the very foundation of the Republic of Nobles was at stake owing to the multiple wars with the neighboring countries and even more to the extent of the anti-Polish and anti-Jewish rebellion on the part of Ukrainian-cossacks population. Jewish pogroms of enormous scale and mass killing were common occurrences for the Right-bank Ukraine (then Poland and later the Russian Empire) in the duration of the 17^th and 18^th Centuries.

The memorial books may turn attention to another boundary situation, namely the period of the First World War and its aftermath. Given the fact of dealing with the Polish and Ukrainian Jewish communities, the very time after the First World War, that is, the period of Russian Civil War, the War for Ukrainian and Polish independence and the local borderland conflicts spurred multiple anti-Jewish atrocities, often resulted in massacres and pogroms. Not all, but a number of the memorial publications documented the pogroms in Poland and Ukraine in 1971 – 1921.

The interwar period (1918 – 1939), largely represented by merchant and religious activities as well as with notification of social and political events taking place in a given locality.

The Holocaust in a given community is documented by the testimonies, recollections and other memorialistic literature deposited by survivors. The documents of the Nazi-German agencies and postwar investigations of the Nazi-German crimes do not constitute the core of the narratives. Evidently, the authors in postwar years living in Israel or Diaspora did not have at their disposal German documents, they may have had the results of the State investigation of the Nazi-German crimes in the given territories. For the large Polish-Jewish communities the later well might have been a plausible source.

Held at:

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

100 S. The Grove Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phone: 323-651-3704

Fax: 323-843-9518

Email: archive [at] lamoth.org

Volume: 0.0

Subject Index

Boryslaw (Poland)
Chelm, Poland
Dobromil (Poland)
Documents in English language
Documents in French language
Documents in Hebrew language
Documents in Yiddish language
Drobycz (Poland)
Drohobych, Ukraine
German-Nazi crimes in occupied countries of Europe
Ghettos, Poland
Gora Kalwaria, Poland
History, Jewish
History of Jews in Poland
History of Poland
History of the Holocaust, photo-documents
Holocaust, history
Interwar Poland
Jewish community in Boryslaw, History
Jewish community in Boryslaw, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Chelm, History
Jewish community in Chelm, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Czestochowa, History
Jewish community in Czestochowa, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Dobromil, History
Jewish community in Dobromil, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Drohobych (Drohobycz), History
Jewish community in Drohobych (Drohobycz), History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Gora Kalwaria, History
Jewish community in Gora Kalwaria, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Krynki, History
Jewish community in Krynki, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Laskarzew, History
Jewish community in Laskarzew, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Lenin, History
Jewish community in Lenin, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Lida, History
Jewish community in Lida, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Lodz, History
Jewish community in Lodz, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Lomza, History
Jewish community in Lomza, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Lubartow, History
Jewish community in Lubartow, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Nowy Dwor (Novy-Dovr), History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Nowy Dwor (Novy-Dvor), History
Jewish community in Sobolew, History
Jewish community in Sobolew, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Stryi (Stryj), history
Jewish community in Stryi (Stryj), History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Suchowola, History
Jewish community in Suchowola, History of the Holocaust
Jewish community in Suwalki (Suwalk), History
Jewish community in Suwalki (Suwalk), History of the Holocaust
Jewish cultural, philanthropic and educational activities in interwar Europe
Jewish cultural community in Poland
Jewish life in Interwar Poland
Jewish partisans, Second World War
Jewish resistance
Jewish resistance organizations in ghettos, Poland
Jewish social and cultural organization in interwar Poland
Jews in Nazi Europe
Jews in Poland, History
Krynki, Poland
Laskarzew (Poland)
Lenin, Poland
Lida, Poland
Life under German occupation--Poland (1939-1945)
Literature in English Language
Literature in Hebrew language
Literature in Yiddish language
Lodz (Poland: Ghetto)
Lodz, Poland
Lomza, Poland
Lubartow, Poland
Mass killing of Jewish population, Second World War
Memorial photographs depicting vanished Jewish communities
Narratives in English language
Narratives in French
Narratives in Hebrew language
narratives in Yiddish
Nazi concentration camps in Poland
Nowy Dwor (Novy-Dvor), Poland
Photographs, pre-Second World War
Photographs, Second World War
Postwar memorial publications in regards to the vanished Jewish communities
postwar publication
Second World War, history, 1939 -- 1945
Sobolew (Poland)
Stryi (Stryj), Poland
Suchowola, Poland
Suwalki (Suwalk), Poland
Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp)
Wartime atrocities and mass killing, Second World War
Wartime discourse in Boryslaw, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Chelm, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Czestochowa, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Dobromil, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Drohobych, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Gora Kalwaria, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Krynki, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Laskarzew, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Lenin, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Lida, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Lodz, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Lomza, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Lubartow, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Nowy Dwor, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Sobolew, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Stryi (Stryj), memorial liteature
Wartime discourse in Suchowola, Memorial literature
Wartime discourse in Suwalk (Suwalki), Memorial literature
Wartime Europe, historic photographs, 1939 -- 1945

Genres/Forms of Material

Prewar photographs

Languages of Materials

English [eng]
Hebrew [heb]
Yiddish [yid]
French [fre]