Paper Tombs:
Post-Holocaust Memorial Books and Prewar Jewish Life

In the decades after the Holocaust, survivors created hundreds of memorial books for destroyed Jewish towns across Eastern Europe. Written in Hebrew and Yiddish these volumes preserved the memories of communities that had been annihilated.

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Paper Tombs explores how these books function as acts of collective remembrance,  preserving the worlds that once existed and shaping how later generations understand Jewish life before the Holocaust.

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