At the end of the week @JewishGen 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: #NeverForget #Holocaust

At the end of each week @JewishGen 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: #NeverForget

At the end of each week @JewishGen 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:

At the end of each week @JewishGen 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: #Neverforget

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At the end of the week @JewishGen 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:

At the end of the week, @JewishGen 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: #NeverForget #TheHolocaust

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At the end of the week @JewishGen 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:

@JewishGen 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:

@JewishGen'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."

*News And Announcements!*.@JewishGen 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!

*New @JewishGen 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 :

At the end of each week @JewishGen 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: @NeverForget

*JewishGen Record Updates: Two Additions to the Bessarabia Collection!* Please follow the link here to read more about our newest updates:

At the end of each week @JewishGen 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: #Neverforget #Holocaust

At the end of the week @JewishGen 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.

At the end of each week @JewishGen 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:

At the end of each week @JewishGen 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:

Every week @JewishGen 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: #NeverForget #Holocaust