Shtetls
Hostels of poverty, those of Knesset
Israel ,
Past generations castigated them as
did
the next generations of authors and
rhetoricians
Rhymesters, poets kept undermining
them
They were jeered and mocked by the
Foolish and by the wise
Kingdoms and dominions enslaved them
battalions of rioters violated them
Bandits robbed them ,
At last - they ceased to be,
vanished.
Abba Kovner
The football stadium of Kleczew, Kalisz Province, Poland, once the Jewish Cemetery of the Community. There is not even a Memorial Plaque! Who will remember the Jews of Kleczew, who were murdered by the Germans in mass graves in the Kazimierz forest, and their ancestors' graves were blasphemed... and the sun still shines over the beautiful playground of Kleczew...
And while I immigrated to Israel after World War II, I used to meet the young people of the country, and listen to their songs and talk as human beings and Jews, who have a clear consciousness that they really write a new Genealogical book, which starts in them. And while I think about the Genealogical book which was burnt in Europe, I had double sorrow about this excellent Israeli young generation, for while they will grow old may be they will not even know what they should have cried about -
Aba Kovner 1983
Bilgoraj (Bilgroaj Jewish Survivors Organization – Israel – Arranged by Israel Bar-On)
Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group CRARG (Prof. Daniel Kazez's Web Site)
Chelm | Chelm Origanization in Israel | בעקבות הקהילה האבודה Tracing the Lost Shtetl
Ciechanow (Ciechanow Research Group Web Page)
The Jewish Cemetery of Czestochowa
Debica (Preker's Remembrance Page)
Jewish Dokshytsy (The Friends of Jewish Dokshytsy' Site)
The Dzialoszyce Yizkor Book (Menachem Daum's Web Site)
Giraltovce (Slovakia), Gabi Lana's Remembrance Page | Report Giraltovce 2008
Golub Dobrzyn (Frank Dobia's Web Site)
Gombin (Gabin) - Parents' Hometown
The Jewish Cemetery of Grodzisk Mazowiecki
The Jews of Ivansk (Iwaniska, Poland)
Jagielnica (Amnon Atzmon Web Site)
Kalisz (Excellent Polish Site) | Kalisz (Sue Fifer's Web Page) | The Organization of the Former Jewish Residents of Kalisz in Israel
Korczyna (Translation of a Whole Yizkor Book in JewishGen)
Kutno (Jewish Kutno Group Web Site)
Łódź Area Research Group (LARG) | Łódź and its Region | Remember Łódź (JewishGen Web Page) | Łódź Jewish Cemetery | The Foundation | From Lodz to Hiroshima, Six Decades | 60 Years: Remembering & Continuing | Ode from Oy to Joy | Łódź-Names: A Record of the 240,000 Inhabitants of the Łódż Ghetto | Jewish Cemetery in Lodz | The Foundation
Remembering the Jews of Lubaczow (Eva Floersheim's Web Page)
Lublin - To Tell... To Internalize... To Remember... (Lublin Organization Web Site)
Remember Pinsk (Nakhum Boneh's Memorial Web Page)
Piotrków Trybunalski (JewishGen Web Page)
Our Virtual Shtetl Jewish Pultusk (Mel Sofian's Web Site)
Radzilow (Jose Gutstein's Memorial Web Page)
Siedlce (The Jewish Community of Siedlce in Israel)
Stropkov (Czechoslovakia - Melody Amsel Page)
Szczuczyn (Jose Gutstein's Memorial Web Page)
Tomaszow Lubelski (The Association of Tomaszow Lubelski Community)
Valasske Mezirici! (Czechoslovakia)
Wizna (Jose Gutstein's Memorial Web Page)
Zabludow (Bartman's Memorial Web Page)
Zabludow Yiskor Book: Translation Initiated and Coordinated by Tilford Bartman
Zamość - The Israeli Organization Of Zamość Jewry, Vicinity & Their Descendants
Zawiercie (Ruth Wilnai Web Site)
Zdunska Wola | The Organization of Former Residents of Zdunska Wola in Israel
Various:
Index of Places in Andrew (Andrzej) M. Kobos's Towns Web Page:
Auschwitz, Babi Yar, Belzec, Calarasi, Drohobycz, Iassi,, Izbica, Kaunas/Kovno, Kiev, Libau, Lublin, Lubny , Lukow, Lvov, Majdanek, Mied, Minsk Mazowiecki, Mizocs, Ninth Fort, Olkusz, Plonsk,Ponary, Riga, Siedlce, Skede Beach, Terezin, Trawniki, Treblinka, Wadowice, Wilno, Wurtzburg
Steven Lasky: Townsites A Listing Of Independent Jewish Genealogical Websites
Prof. Yaffa Eliach: The Shtetl Museum - "A Shtetl Grows In Rishon
Beth Hatefutsoth: Communities Database
From Where Are Those Rare Tombstones?
The Shalom Foundation, Golda Tencer: "And I still See Their Faces"...
The List of Jewish Communities Murdered in Chelmno
The List of Jewish Communities Murdered in Treblinka
WJRO - World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO)
Moshe Verbin: Wooden Synagogues of Poland in the 17th and 18th Century
A Selection from Amongst the Thousand Autobiographies of Jewish Children in Poland
The Association of Next Generation Polish Jewry
Communities Monuments in Israel (IGS)
Eilat Gordin Levitan – a Vanished World in Photographs
Last updated August 2nd, 2015
