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Yiddish Book Center - Download yizkor book PDFs
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Genealogy Indexer.org - Search yizkor books, directories and more
New York Public Library - Read digitized yizkor books online
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JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Index - search yizkor book necrologies (list of names of the dead)
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Yizkor Books
Yizkor (memorial) books document Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust.
Most (85% ) of the 700 yizkor books at The New York Public Library are online.
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This guide lists the yizkor book collection alphabetically by town or city name.
Most yizkor books are in Hebrew and/or Yiddish. English translations for many are found on JewishGen and in print.