Download or read book Memorial Book The Ritavas Community A Tribute to the Memory of Our Town Rietavas Lithuania written by Alter Levite and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of and English translation of the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Riteve, Lithuania, also called by these names: Rietavas [Lithuanian], Riteve [Yiddish], Retovo [Russian], Retów [Polish], Retowo, Rietevas, Riteva, Ritova. Once a living and thriving place of community, family, education, work, hardship, love, and joy, Ritavas and its people were wiped from the face of the earth during the Holocaust. But with the memories of the survivors, we can all remember what once made this Shtetl a home to so many of the lost. This book contains memories and first-hand accounts of Shoah survivors and those who left the town before the destruction. Though not great literature, it provides eye-witness accounts of the vitality of the community before the war and also disturbing and factual accounts of the treatment of the Jews of the town during the war. It also provides insight into the lives and environment of the ancestors of people who can trace their lineage back to the town, providing another dimension to our own personal history. This Yizkor Book serves as a memorial to this now extinct Jewish Community.
Download or read book The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941 1945 written by Rose Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogical Resources in New York written by Estelle M. Guzik and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updating the earlier, Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area, this volume describes genealogical repositories in all of New York's five boroughs with an emphasis on Jewish sources.
Download or read book The Fall of a Sparrow written by Dina Porat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fall of a Sparrow is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (1918–1987). An unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence, Kovner was born in Vilna, "the Jerusalem of Lithuania." Long before the rest of the world suspected, he was the first person to state that Hitler was planning to kill the Jews of Europe. Kovner and other defenders of the Vilna ghetto, only hours before its destruction, escaped to the forest to join the partisans fighting the Nazis. Returning after the Liberation to find Vilna empty of Jews, he immigrated to Israel, where he devised a fruitless plot to take revenge on the Germans. He then joined the Israeli army and served as the Givati Brigade's Information Officer, writing "Battle Notes," newsletters that inspired the troops defending Tel Aviv. After the war, Kovner settled on a kibbutz and dedicated his life to working the land, writing poetry, and raising a family. He was also the moving force behind such projects as the Diaspora Museum and the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. The Fall of a Sparrow is based on countless interviews with people who knew Kovner, and letters and archival material that have never been translated before.
Download or read book Nakam written by Dina Porat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans Nakam (Hebrew for "vengeance") tells the story of "the Avengers" (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks on survivors continued long after the Nazi surrender, these fifty young men and women sought retaliation at a level commensurate with the devastation caused by the Holocaust, making clear to the world that Jewish blood would no longer be shed with impunity. Had they been successful, they would have poisoned city water supplies and loaves of bread distributed to German POWs, with the aim of killing six million Germans. Kovner and his followers went to great lengths to carry out their plans, going so far as to obtain the schematics for Nuremberg's municipal water system, secure large quantities of poison, infiltrate a POW camp and the bakery that supplied it, and distribute poisoned bread to prisoners—but their plots were ultimately stymied. Most of the members of Nakam eventually returned to Israel, where for decades many of them refused to speak publicly about their roles in the group. While the Avengers' story began to come to light in the 1980s, details of the relations between the group and Zionist leadership and the motivations of its members have remained unknown. Drawing on rich archival sources and in-depth interviews with the Avengers in their later years, historian Dina Porat examines the formation of the group and the clash between the formative humanistic values held by its members and their unrealized plans for violent retribution.
Download or read book Shards of Memory written by Alicia Esther Goldberg and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of the Yizkor (Memorial) book of the Jewish community of Antopol; original book was edited by Benzion H. Ayalon, Tel-Aviv, 1972.
Download or read book Akkerman and the Towns of Its District Memorial Book written by Nisan Amitai Stambul and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Memorial Book of Akkerman and the Towns of its District (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy, Ukraine). Translation of Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz; sefer edut ve-zikaron; Tells the history of the Jewish community from its establishment until its destruction in the holocaust.
Download or read book Surviving the Holocaust written by Avraham Tory and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape from Lithuania, the author was forced to entrust the diary to leaders of the Escape movement; eventually it made its way to his new home in Israel. The diary incorporates Avraham Tory’s collections of official documents, Jewish Council reports, and original photographs and drawings made in the Ghetto. It depicts in grim detail the struggle for survival under Nazi domination, when—if not simply carted off and murdered in a random “action”—Jews were exploited as slave labor while being systematically starved and denied adequate housing and medical care. Through it all, Tory’s overriding purpose was to record the unimaginable events of these years and to memorialize the determination of the Jews to sustain their community life in the midst of the Nazi terror. Of the surviving diaries originating in the principal European Ghettos of this period, Tory’s is the longest written by an adult, a dramatic and horrifying document that makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary history. Tory provides an insider’s view of the desperate efforts of Ghetto leaders to protect Jews. Martin Gilbert’s masterly introduction establishes the authenticity of the diary, presents its events against the backdrop of the war in Europe, and considers the crucial questions of collaboration and resistance.
Download or read book Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity Islam and Judaism written by Armin Lange and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and religious memories. This volume explores how antisemitic religious symbol systems can play a key role in the construction of group identities.
Download or read book Tax Revision Compendium 791 p written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering Dvinsk Daugavpils Latvia written by Yudel Flior and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-08-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Memorial (Yizkor) Book for the Jewish Community of Dvinsk ( Daugavpils), Latvia, containing a reprint of the 1965 book Dvinsk - The Rise and Decline of a Town by Yudel Flior, translated from Yiddish by Bernard Sachs and the translation of the 1975 class project In Memory of the Community of Dvinsk plus appendix of historic photographs.
Download or read book The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David written by Dina Porat and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bransk Book of Memories Bransk Poland written by Alter Trus and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the town of Bransk, Poland, originally written in 1948 in Yiddish by the former residents and survivors of the town. It provides a first-hand account of the life in the town before the Shoah and accounts of the destruction of this Jewish Community by the Nazis and their local collaborators.
Download or read book Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media the Legal and Political Worlds written by Armin Lange and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the transformation of age-old antisemitic stereotypes into a new form of discrimination, often called "New Antisemitism" or "Antisemitism 2.0." Manifestations of antisemitism in political, legal, media and other contexts are reflected on theoretically and contemporary developments are analyzed with a special focus on online hatred. The volume points to the need for a globally coordinated approach on the political and legal levels, as well as with regard to the modern media, to effectively combat modern antisemitism.
Download or read book Lotty s Bench written by Gerben Post and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 26, 1945: Lotty Veffer arrived in Amsterdam. She was the only member of her family to have survived the war. Her parents and younger sister Carla had been gassed in Sobibor. There was no heartfelt welcome for her, and eventually she was forced to spend her first night back "home" in Amsterdam on a park bench on the Apollolaan. In September 2017, the ninety-six-year-old Lotty was honored with her own monument, a bench on the exact same spot where she had spent that first night. Lotty passed away on July 27, 2018. In Amsterdam alone there are more than eighty monuments created to remember the Holocaust. There are still many more locations that tell parts of the story: buildings, squares, and streets that were once silent witnesses to the darkest page in the city's history. The ninety-five vignettes in Lotty's Bench explore these monuments and locations to make clear how inextricably Amsterdam's history is linked to the persecution of its Jews.
Download or read book Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism written by Armin Lange and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred, which are stored in the cultural and religious memories of the Western and Muslim worlds, migrating freely between Christian, Muslim and other religious symbolic systems.
Download or read book Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe written by Haim Fireberg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish life in Europe has undergone dramatic changes and transformations within the 20th century and also the last two decades. The phenomenon of the dual position of the Jewish minority in relation to the majority, not entirely unusual for Jewish Diaspora communities, manifested itself most distinctly on the European continent. This unique Jewish experience of the ambiguous position of insider and outsider may provide valuable views on contemporary European reality and identity crisis. The book focuses inter alia on the main common denominators of contemporary Jewish life in Central Europe, such as an intense confrontation with the heritage of the Holocaust and unrelenting antisemitism on the one hand and on the other hand, huge appreciation of traditional Jewish learning and culture by a considerable part of non-Jewish Europeans. The volume includes contributions on Jewish life in central European countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and Germany.
