Memorial Volumes to Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust: A Bibliography of British Library Holdings

It is natural for people who have been forced into exile by any kind of pressure – economic, religious or military – to cherish a memory of their home town, as we can see in the establishment of expatriate societies in various parts of the world. I still remember the tangible sense of loss in an exhibition of photographs and other illustrative materials mounted in a town in West Germany by a group of ageing Germans who had been forced to abandon their home town in Silesia in the closing stages of World War II. Such a desire to remember...