New Digitization Project Preserves Holocaust Survivors’ Identities

From Jewish Boston:

In the aftermath of World War II, a courageous rabbi compiled lists of Holocaust survivors in Europe in hopes of connecting them with loved ones. Now, thanks to a unique partnership based in Western Massachusetts, these lists are online for anyone to search for free.

Ken Schoen of South Deerfield-based Schoen Books has digitized the lists through a collaboration with the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center at UMass-Amherst.

“You can actually obtain a PDF of the document from the Schoen Books website under the reprint section,” Schoen said.

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The lists that Schoen helped digitize were originally compiled almost 80 years ago by Rabbi Abraham Klausner, a U.S. military chaplain who visited war-torn Europe, including displaced persons camps for Holocaust survivors in Germany and Austria. The lists were published as a book in 1945.

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Collective Copies of Florence reprinted the book and also digitized every page. The reprinted version is available for purchase, with the digitized lists available online through the partnership with UMass.

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