Reshimath ha-seridim shel yehudei polin. Chovereth I [“List of Survivors of Polish Jewry, Booklet I.”]

(HOLOCAUST)

Lifschitz

Jerusalem

Tammuz, 1945

Hebrew and English text

Issued some three months after the conclusion of the War in Europe by the Hithachduth Olei Polanyah / Ha-Va'ad ha-Me'uchad le-Ezrath Yehudei Polin. The purpose of the directory was to facilitate relatives in Eretz Israel in contacting members of their family who might have survived the systematic slaughter of Polish Jewry. The enormity of the tragedy is reflected in the pitiful few names recorded. Of the three million Jews in Poland at the outbreak of World War Two, a very slim directory sufficed to list all survivors known at the time