Survivor Memoirs: Publishing Your Memoir and Finding a Place of Honor for It at the Library of Yad Yashem

This post is a special notice for Holocaust survivors:

Many of you took upon yourselves the enormous task of writing your memoirs. This is of great value to all of us, and even more so for future generations that will not have the privilege of personally knowing a survivor. I have often been asked if I could help make the right connections in order to get your precious records published, or to make sure they are kept in the right place so they don’t get lost and are available where future generations and researchers can access them.

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is Israel’s official memorial institution to the victims of the Holocaust, and serves as an international center for research and documentation of the Holocaust. I contacted my colleagues at Yad Vashem and received a clear and enthusiastic response from Dr. Ella Florsheim, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Yad Vashem Publications, who kindly informed me that Yad Vashem Library seeks to collect any manuscripts about the Holocaust, and especially survivor memoirs.

If you have a survivor memoir which has already been published, please contact Joshua Bernhardt at: joshua.bernhardt@yadvashem.org.il, or directly mail the book to the following address:

Yad Vashem Library

Har Hazikaron

P.O.B. 3477

Jerusalem 9103401

Israel

For memoirs which have not yet been published and the survivors are interested in pursuing an option of publication by Yad Vashem Publications, please contact Elinor Cohen at publications.office@yadvashem.org.il.

     Warmly,

Irit Felsen