The Shershev Compendium

Item Information

Title:
The Shershev Compendium
Description:
"A diverse compendium of over 1,000 pages on Shershev (Shershevo), Belarus, compiled by descendant Leah Watson in 2016. Contains maps, map enlargement, spread sheets of the town's inhabitants, excerpts from three Yizkor books, interviews, survivor summaries, charts, clippings, historical data, anecdotal material, photographs, memoirs, trip diaries, and creative writing. Major contributors include survivor Moishe Kantorwitz's unique visual-spatial map detailing, in both Yiddish and English, over 300 households."
Contributor:
Kantorowitz, Moishe, 1923-
Contributor:
Zazuyer, Leah
Contributor:
Sikes, Laura
Name on Item:
Compiled and edited by Leah Watson (with the editorial and technical assistance of historian Laura Sikes)
Date:
2016
Format:
Books
Location:
Yiddish Book Center
Collection (local):
Yizkor Books
Subjects:
Jews--History--Belarus--Shereshevo
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Belarus--Shereshevo
Holocaust survivors--Biography--Canada
Memorial books (Holocaust)
Holocaust survivors
Jews
Jews--Shereshevo (Belarus)
Kantorowitz, Moishe, 1923-
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Places:
District of Columbia > Washington
New York > New York
Canada
Belarus--Shereshevo
Extent:
1 online resource (1090 pages) illustrations, maps, portraits (some color).
Link to Item:
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books/yzk-nybc318143
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Publisher:
Rochester, New York : Leah Watson
Language:
English
Table of Contents:
Map-Maker's Words
Project Introduction
Acknowledgements
Editor's Note
From My Mother's Bequest, a memoir by Moishe Kantorowitz
Where People Went and Where They Died
Maps
Photographs
Appendix
Index. Appendix contains: Oral histories and interviews
Encyclopedia and guidebook excerpts
Travelogues
Shershev History, Jack Auerbach
"Shershev," from Five Liquidated Communities (Buenos Aires: 1958), Mordecai Bernstein et al., eds., translated by Leah (Elinor) Robinson
"Judenrat in Pruzhany," by Avrom Harshalom from Alive in the Ashes
"My Town Shershev in the Death March," by Chaim Malecki from Pinkas Pruzhany Book, Josepf Friedlaender et al, eds. (Tel Aviv: 1983)
Back to Belarus by Leah Zazulyer (Watson)
Shershev History, by Harry Siegerman
"My Town," poem by Israel Emiot, translated by Leah Zazulyer
"A Little Jewish Girl From Shershev," by Leah Zazulyer
"Torontonians Help Reclaim Cemetery in Belarus," The Canadian Jewish News
Correspondence.
Notes:
Series: Yiddish Book Center digital Yizkor book collection ; number 18143.
Notes (language):
Text in English; includes many translations from Yiddish; some map labels in Yiddish and Hebrew; one poem in Yiddish alongside English translation.
Identifier:
nybc318143
ISBN:
0657181439
9780657181437