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Luboml: The Memorial Book of a Vanished Shtetl

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My mother was born there. Almost 50 of that half of my family remained there after my grandfather and great-uncles brought the rest of the clan to the US ... they perished in Poland in WWII. Several of my cousins have the book, which makes life in a Polish shtetl (Libivne) real to those of us who have only heard occasional stories from the few members of our family who still survive. Could have been 5-stars with a bit of extra info (date/date range of photos [or indications that date not known], census lists or recollected names/addresses for the Jewish residents, etc.) that could make geneology research a bit easier.

These are wonderful, poignant, often heartbreaking stories of a lost community. The book began in 1967, and was originally in Yiddish and Hebrew. (Other Yizkor - remember - books began to appear right after the war and were all in Hebrew or Yiddish. Because the English versions of these books took so much work and cost so much to translate and produce, for so many communities there is no English language version. Yes, for family genealogical research, they are limited. The English book does update the list of those killed by the Nazis. Fortunately, for descendants of Libivners (Yiddish for people of Luboml), there is this English version. And also a website [...]

I had no family from Luboml. My grandparents had the good fortune to come to the US from Russia-Poland in the great wave of immigration 1880 - 1920. But in 2000 I saw a traveling exhibit on Luboml and it has came to represent for me, the world lost in the Shoah.