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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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Zamberk (Senftenberg), Czech Republic (1)

50°05' N,16°28' E

Nearby Localities and Map
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Guide Book: Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia (1991) ( Communal Histories, Yizkor Books )
Fiedler, Jiří

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: Zollfahndungszweigstelle Brünn (D25)

USHMM: Finanzlandesdirektion Oberösterreich

USHMM: Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, Berlin (Fond 721)

USHMM: Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index (HO 396)

USHMM: Court records of the Reichsjustizministerium (R 3001)

USHMM: Oral history interview with Jutta Popower Preuss

USHMM: Records of the Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (B 162)

USHMM: Materialy zebrane przez Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) dotyczące pracy przymusowej w III Rzeszy

USHMM: Okres Žamberk

USHMM: Okres Žamberk

USHMM: USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Vera Jelinek

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