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Yizker bikher books commemorate Holocaust deaths – but also celebrate Jewish communities' life

  • Written by Jennifer Rich, Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
imageA group of schoolgirls in Czyzew, Poland, before the Holocaust.Czyżew Yizkor Book by Shimon Kanc/New York Public Library

Each year on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex in Poland, an International Day of Commemoration memorializes the victims of the Holocaust. This somber day focuses on the...

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