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This week's excerpt (http://bit.ly/2bhaQkF) is from the Yizkor book of
Molchad (Maytchet) in Belarus, a little over 100 miles southwest of Minsk.
The Jewish population of the town was 1,888 in 1900. The author of this
account, A. Ben-Shalom, had hooked up with a Russian partisan group, as he
recounts in his article, "The raid...and the meeting." He remembers it as
an unexpected opportunity for revenge for what the Germans had done in
the town, but his story takes a haunting twist.

You can find it here:
https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1150698584952295:0

Bruce Drake
Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel

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This week's excerpt (http://bit.ly/2bkJAQx) is from the Yizkor book of Zgierz
in central Poland about seven miles from Lodz. In 1932, it had a Jewish
population of 4,547.
[MOD. NOTE: original URL - http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/zgierz/zgi555.html ]

This chapter recounts the story of a small group of Jews trying to flee to
Russian-controlled territory in 1939 to escape the Germans. There are many
accounts in Yizkor books of "righteous gentiles" - those that did their best,
often at risk to themselves, to show humanity to Jews in the years of the
Holocaust and even see to their safety. Such a story is told here by W. Ben
Shimon in "This Must Also Be Written..."

You can find the excerpt here:
https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1156866594335494:0

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

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Among the many painful and moving memories of the extermination of
the Jews recounted in Yizkor books comes from Kovel, now in northwest
Ukraine but which had at various times been part of Poland and Russia.
The Jewish population was about 20,000 when the Germans arrived in
1941. The process of liquidation lasted until October 1942. During
this time, about 1,000 Jews tried to escape but were rounded up and
taken to the famous Great Synagogue before they were ultimately taken
to meet their deaths. While awaiting their end, many wrote notes on
the synagogue's walls in Hebrew, Yiddish or Polish. This excerpt is a
compilation of them.

You can find it here:

https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1159915110697309:0

Bruce Drake