Yizkor Books are published histories of individual Eastern European Jewish communities, memorialising the town and its Holocaust victims. There is usually a narrative section on the town's history, culture, institutions and rabbis, and sometimes a list of Holocaust victims, survivors or emigrants.

Most memorial books are entirely in Hebrew and/or Yiddish, though some do have small sections in English or other languages. Yizkor books have been published for over 1,000 towns.

Major collections of Yizkor books are housed at Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), The British Library, The Library of the JGSGB, University College Library, Yarnton Manor (Oxford) and the Wiener Library. In the USA, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Library of Congress (Washington) and YIVO in New York have major collections.

Cyril Fox and Saul Issroff. Jewish memorial (yizkor) books in the United Kingdom : destroyed European Jewish communities. [London] : Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2006. ISBN/ISSN: 0953766950 (pbk) 9780953766956

Tahan, Ilana. Memorial volumes to Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust : a bibliography of British Library holdings . foreword by Martin Gilbert. London : British Library, 2003. ISBN/ISSN: 0712348204

Zachary M. Baker and Steven W. Siegel, Bibliography of Eastern European Memorial (Yizkor) books New York, NY: Jewish Genealogical Society, 1992, 51 p.A revised edition (1993) was published in from Generation to Generation by Arthur Kurzweil, Harper Collins: NY and London, 1994

An online translation project of Yizkor books is at www.jewishgen.org/yizkor

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