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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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Jevicko (Gewitsch), Czech Republic (5)

49°52' N,16°42' E

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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
Monumenta Hungariae Judaica: Tomus XIII: 1290-1789 (1970) ( Communal Histories )
Scheiber, Sandor
See Note.
Guide Book: Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia (1991) ( Communal Histories, Yizkor Books )
Fiedler, Jiří
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

External Links

Jewish History

General History

Wikipedia (English)

Wikipedia (Czech)

Cemeteries

International Jewish Cemetery Project

Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - interviews

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - documents, photos, & artifacts

USHMM: Heinrich Salomon Rosenberg (seated, wearing large hat) and his wife Paula Gewitsch Rosenberg sit around a table and watch a chess game n the Opole Lubelskie Ghetto.

USHMM: Oral history interview with Jaroslava Zoráhalová

USHMM: Dr. Arthur Kessler papers

USHMM: Zollfahndungszweigstelle Brünn (D25)

USHMM: The archives of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai

USHMM: Wiener Prozesse wegen NS-Verbrechen

mit einem Vorwort von Gideon Eckhaus

USHMM: Okres Boskovice

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