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18th- and 19th-century Jewish communal registers (pinkasim in Hebrew) obtained by special agreement with the Russian State Library.

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. See the "About" tab for details.

Details of four yizkor books and one communal history featured in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Documents associated with Rabbi Shimen Eisenberg, whose 2nd volume of memoirs was transcribed for Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

The manuscript of volume three of Avraham Shlomo Melamed's memoirs, which is included in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Three photographs of European Jews taken in the early 1910s. See the "About" tab for details.

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Jemnice (Jamnitz, Gamnitz), Czech Republic (4)

49°46' N,12°45' E

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Mitteilungen zur jüdischen Volkskunde: Jahrgang 1910, Heft 1 (1910) ( Communal Histories )
Grunwald, Max
Leipziger Messgäste: die jüdischen Besucher der Leipziger Messen in den Jahren 1675 bis 1764 [Leipzig Fair Visitors: The Jewish Visitors to the Leipzig Trade Fairs Between 1675 and 1764] (1928) ( Communal Histories )
Freudenthal, Max
See Note.
Die Juden und Judengemeinden Mährens in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (1929) ( Yizkor Books )
Gold, Hugo
Ts'ekhyah u-Slovakyah be-mabat Yehudi u-khelali : madrikh la-metayel [Czechia and Slovakia from a Jewish and General Perspective: A Travel Guide] ([2003]) ( Communal Histories )
צ׳כיה וסלובקיה במבט יהודי וכללי: מדריך למטייל
Lavi, Yeḥezkel

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USHMM: Zollfahndungszweigstelle Brünn (D25)

USHMM: Military Historical Archives in Prague records

USHMM: Židovská čtvrť v Jemnici / Jaroslav Klenovský

USHMM: USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Jaroslav Poskocil

USHMM: Okres Moravské Budějovice

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