YIZKOR BOOKS : NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

YIDDISH BOOK CENTER - LINKS TO YIZKOR (MEMORY) BOOKS - HOLOCAUST 

The New York Public Library - Yiddish Book Center Yizkor Book Collection includes 650 digitized Yizkor books from the collections of the two institutions.

You can search this online collection by title and by the name of the towns they commemorate, or browse the list on this website by country and community name.  You can browse both the New York Public Library and Yiddish Book Center digital collections, along with links to ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS on the New York Public Library's Guide to Yizkor Books.

GEORGE WASHINGTON in 1783

 

George Washington in 1783

Artist John Trumbell

Looking a lot younger than we're used to seeing him.

THE WHITE HOUSE

 

MY HEARTS BEST LOVE

 

LOVES MESSAGE TO MY VALENTINE

 

CHRISTMAS MAGIC SPELL

GREEN BOOK GUIDES REVEALED PLACES WHERE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WERE WELCOME

New York Public Library provides the GREEN BOOKS.  These were like local travel guides to help African-Americans find out where they were welcome when they traveled. 

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - GREEN BOOKS - AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

EXCERPT: From 1936 to 1966, Victor Green, a postal worker who worked in New Jersey but lived in Harlem, published the directories known today as the Green Book. (The Actual titles were variously" The Negro Motorist Green Book; The Negro Traveler's Green Book; the Travelers' Green Book.) These listed hotels, restaurants, beauty salons, night clubs, bars, gas stations, etc. where Black travelers would be welcome.  In an age of sundown towns, segregation, and lynching, the Green Book became an indispensable tool for safe navigation.

A valuable aspect of African American History. 

You may find that some of the locations appear on the 1940 census and have residents.

ELLIS ISLAND CLERK AUGUSTUS SHERMAN's PHOTOS - THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN MELTING POT

DAILY MAIL - AUGUSTUS SHERMAN's ELLIS ISLAND PHOTOS


Dutch children in clogs, a Romanian piper with sheep skin cape, a Slovak woman and a Ruthenian woman in their best  embroidered dresses...


If you haven't seen these photos yet, you've missed out.

"Yet Sherman's notes offer only the most tantalizing of glimpses into the life of the immigrants risking it all to reach the Land of the Free.

One man, covered in tattoos, is simply referred to as a German stowaway by the amateur photographer. 

Sherman, born in 1865 in Lynn, Pennsylvania, never received any training as a photographer in an age where the art was still in its infancy.

But his incredible pictures serve as a historic tapestry of America's diverse beginnings.

In 1907, they were published in National Geographic magazine and framed versions hung on the walls of headquarters of the federal Immigration Service in Manhattan.

Today, they are now housed by the New York Public Library."

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YIZKOR BOOKS

There are several resources for Yizkor books (Books that Record and thus Remember those Jews killed in the Holocaust of World War II) but I just found this one from THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, which gives you VIEWABLE books on line... THIS IS AN EXPERIENCE!

Millions of people who were not Jewish were also killed by the Nazis, such as Rom (gypsies), Catholic clergy, and Polish Christian Intelligentsia, and it is my hope that there will be comprehensive memory books for them too someday.