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Every week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. "He survived typhoid. He was caught once by the Gestapo and beat severely but let go. But ultimately, he ended up in Birkenau..." Read more about this Holocaust survivor: tinyurl.com/y3vlf2x9 #NeverForget #Holocaust


At the end of each week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. "Many young Jews, 'full of ideals of justice and brotherhood,' attempted to cross the border to Russia in the mistaken belief they would find better conditions." Read more here: tinyurl.com/y5dlqtpq


At the end of each week JewishGen.org shares a Yizkor Book spotlight. “'See, my hands and my feet are bound in chains, but you cannot close my mouth…' and with the call 'Long live freedom!,' he gave up his spirit. " Read more about Itsik Trastinetski here: tinyurl.com/y665r4cd


At the end of the week JewishGen.org shares a spotlight from a Yizkor Book. This is the story of an “ordinary” man; a portrait of a man “happy with his portion of life” who worked many jobs, which provides its own picture of life in the shtetl. tinyurl.com/y2nu4lqv


At the end of each week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. "When she and her family first fled the elimination of Jews in Sokoly, they were shunned by Poles when they sought shelter and food ..." Read more here: tinyurl.com/yyzw4q4k #Neverforget #Holocaust



At the end of each week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. "'The Evacuation from Ksiaz' recounts the first stages of how the Germans and their henchmen uprooted and eventually destroyed Jewish communities." Read the rest here: tinyurl.com/y5dc368q neverforget


*New JewishGen.org Update* We are proud to announce a new InfoFiles essay by Joel Weintraub, PhD, on "Finding Immigrant Names on Degraded Ellis Island Manifests". Read more here :jewishgen.org/jewishgen/news…

*News And Announcements!* JewishGen.org is pleased to announce that their 2019 Future Scholars Fellowship fellows are in Poland! Follow for more information and to follow the trip's progress! jewishgen.org/jewishgen/news…


JewishGen.org's Yizkor Spotlight comes from the "most crushing and heart-rending experiences of the Holocaust came after the war when those who had survived the Nazi exterminations returned to their home towns in search of people or places they had known."tinyurl.com/y4lec98l


JewishGen.org Yizkor Book Spotlight "Among the many groups who persecuted the Jews of Europe there was also the Cossacks. “Petlura,” takes its name from the infamous leader of the Ukrainian pogrom bands, Semion Petlura." More: tinyurl.com/y3roqcr2


At the end of the week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. Yekhiel Kirshnbaum remembers that after the Germans had been defeated, there were Jews who believed they could return home and live peacefully in Poland. Read more here: tinyurl.com/y5ncqgy6



At the end of the week, JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. "The Past Revisited” from the Yizkor book of Piotrkow, Poland is another story of a return “home” after the war and the Holocaust. Read more here: tinyurl.com/y6arpaya #NeverForget #TheHolocaust


At the end of the week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. Zvi Faigenbaum's story is his account of his escape from a train car, which he made with his daughter, and others in his rail car. Read the full excerpt here: tinyurl.com/y3c3o6oh



At the end of each week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. In "My Father's Nigun", Rubin remembers his father and the pain that had collected in him during an entire year in this affectionate portrait of a father. Read more here: tinyurl.com/yxeyurm7 #Neverforget


At the end of each week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. Titled, “’Kol Nidre’ in Auschwitz.” The Jews of the camp had promised ourselves for a long time that this year we would conduct Kol Nidrei services". Read more from here: tinyurl.com/y2z3mk7t


At the end of each week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. Esther Brand's account of meeting the man who would hid her from the Germans in the town of Turka in, “Saved by Righteous Gentiles”. Read more about her story here: tinyurl.com/yy3bnxs3 #NeverForget


At the end of the week JewishGen.org shares an excerpt from a Yizkor Book. From the Yizkor Book of Dabrowa Gornicza in Poland, is Juda Parasol’s account of returning to the town where he was born after a 15 year absence. Full story: tinyurl.com/y4dzqchr #NeverForget #Holocaust
