For More Information
Learning More
The following Internet sites and books have been particularly helpful in compiling this site and may be interesting to those who wish to learn more about Jewish genealogy, the Jews of Poland, Galicia and the Holocaust:
| Genealogy | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Ancestry | Ship passenger lists, U.S. Census records, much more in huge collection. Most information requires subscription. Free access to Jewish Family History Collection, created in partnership with JewishGen and American Joint Distribution Committee. |
| Avotaynu | Publishers of very useful genealogy books, journals, maps and CDs with useful list of recommendations. Free E-mailed magazine tracks developments in Jewish genealogy. |
| Gesher Galicia | Community of researchers focusing on Galicia Jewish genealogy. Database of useful research and reference information. Other links to important resources, including maps. |
| Jewish Geneological Society of New York | List of Jewish genealogical resources in New York. Database of known Jewish burial society cemetery plots in New York. Jewish cemetery information. |
| JewishGen | Leading clearinghouse and contact center for Jewish genealogy. Family Finder (find other family researchers) and InfoFiles and Jewish Genealogy FAQ (essential "how to" essays), Yizkor Book Translation Project, Family Tree of the Jewish People, sign up for JewishGen Discussion Group newsgroup and search archives. Much more. |
| JRI-Poland | Iindexes of more than 3.5 million Jewish birth, death and marriage records from nearly 500 towns now or formerly in Poland. |
| Kolbuszowa Region Research Group | Links to information pages about former shtetls within 30 miles of Kolbuszowa, including Zolynia, Lancut, Lezajsk, Rzeszow and other places mentioned on this site. |
| Museum of Family History | Steven Lasky's site has many interesting image essays, including Holocaust memorials in hometown association plots, postcards of Jewish families in Europe and more. |
| One-Step Webpages | Stephen Morse's outstanding search tools make finding information in many well-known databases easier. Ellis Island passenger search forms, New York vital record indexes and language translation/transliteration tools especially useful. |
| PolishRoots.com | Links to maps, translations, other reference materials. Letter Writing Guide can help researchers write request letter in Polish. |
| Holocaust | |
| H.E.A.R.T. | Holocaust Education and Research Team has many essays, articles and images about a very wide range of Holocaust-related subjects, with many details hard to find elsewhere. |
| NYPL Yizkor Books | New York Public Library online collection of Yizkor (memorial) books about former shtetls, published by hometown associations and others after the Holocaust. Books for Lancut, Lezajsk and Rzeszow were used extensively in preparing this site. |
| U.S. Holocaust Museum | Holocaust Encyclopedia gives a detailed overview. Site is available in many languages. |
| Yad Vashem | Central Database of Shoah Victims Names. Please consider submitting a Page of Testimony for known Jewish victims of Holocaust. Shoah-Related Lists Database of original documents. Online Photo Archives. Righteous Among Nations Resource Center. About the Holocaust education center. |
| Poland and Zolynia | |
| Gmina Zolynia | Official web site of Gmina Zolynia. News and images. In Polish, but a summary page is available in English and rudimentary translations can be generated through Google Translate. The image gallery has many photographs of Zolynia today and in the past. |
| World War I | |
| First World War | Huge collection of articles and photographs about another world war. |
| General Reference | Author or Editor | |
|---|---|---|
| A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery | Joshuah L. Segal | |
| Immigration and Jews in the United States | ||
| Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York | Hannah Kliger | |
| Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 | Daniel Soyer | |
| Poland and Galicia | ||
| Antisemitism And Its Opponents In Modern Poland | Robert Blobaum | |
| Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide | Suzan F. Wynne | |
| Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages From the Past and Archival Inventories | Miriam Weiner | |
| The Life of Jews in Poland Before the Holocaust: A Memoir | Ben-Zion Gold | |
| Master of Lancut | Count Alfred Potocki | |
| Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust (Revised Edition) | by Gary Mokotoff & Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon | |
| Second World War and Holocaust (especially Galicia and Podkarpackie) | ||
| Atlas of the Holocaust | Martin Gilbert | |
| Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and its Aftermath | Joshua D. Zimmerman | |
| Fear: anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz | Jan T. Gross | |
| The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War | Martin Gilbert | |
| Holocaust Journey | Martin Gilbert | |
| Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland | Christopher R. Browning | |
| Shtetl | Eva Hoffman | |
| The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meanings | James E. Young | |
| Three Homelands: Memories of a Jewish Life in Poland, Israel and America | Norman Salsitz, with Stanley Kaish | |
| …And Heaven Shed No Tears | Henry Armin Herzog |