The Yizkor Book Project and JewishGen Press are integral parts of JewishGen, featuring translations of original Yizkor books and other research documents, as well as digitizing books for online searches. Susan Rosin, Publications Manager for JewishGen Press, shared what Yizkor books are and how they’re made accessible to researchers in English. If you’ve ever read an English Yizkor book about your ancestors’ town or an essay about a family member in one, you know just how valuable these works are for genealogical research.
Born in Poland to two Holocaust survivors from the former Galicia (now part of the Ukraine), Susan Rosin grew up in Israel. She received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and an M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. After moving to the US with her spouse and children, she became a software developer, retiring as a software development manager from a major financial company. Inspired to start the genealogical research of her family by a (non-Jewish) coworker and hitting the proverbial “brick wall” she decided to give back to JewishGen. She translated the entire 700+ pages Yizkor book of her mother’s town (published in 2018) and then started on the book of her father’s town. She proceeded to lead the indexing project of Yizkor books and in 2021 became JewishGen Press Publications Manager.
Born in Poland to two Holocaust survivors from the former Galicia (now part of the Ukraine), Susan Rosin grew up in Israel. She received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and an M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. After moving to the US with her spouse and children, she became a software developer, retiring as a software development manager from a major financial company. Inspired to start the genealogical research of her family by a (non-Jewish) coworker and hitting the proverbial “brick wall” she decided to give back to JewishGen. She translated the entire 700+ pages Yizkor book of her mother’s town (published in 2018) and then started on the book of her father’s town. She proceeded to lead the indexing project of Yizkor books and in 2021 became JewishGen Press Publications Manager.
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