JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database

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JewishGen, comp. JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

Original data: This data is provided in partnership with JewishGen.org.

About JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database

The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies — the lists of Holocaust martyrs — published in the Yizkor Books appearing on the JewishGen Yizkor Book Translation Project. This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be available.

Because most of these names were transliterated from Hebrew and Yiddish, the spellings of the surnames may not be as you are used to seeing them in Latin-alphabet sources.

Updates:
9 Nov 2023: Added 419,285 new records.

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