The Jewish Genealogy site is the host of the Yizkor project, a collection of eyewitness testimony to the Holocaust. Each article on this site is remarkable in its own way; one that was especially interesting to me was the remembrances of Rubin Kaplan, as transcribed by his grand-daughter Alison Greengard in 1991. He describes life in White Russia between the years 1904-1922, and his story has many similarities with that of Falk Zolf as told in "On Foreign Soil". The Yizkor site also contains many deeply shocking accounts of the Holocaust; for example, the story of the town of Dokshitzy, Belarus.

The memoirs of Yekhezkal Kotik, published shortly before the First World War, provide a fascinating picture of Jewish life in the nineteenth century. Volume I has previously been translated into English; now, Dutch translator Lucas Bruyn is working on an English translation of Kotiks’s "Mayn Zikhroynos", Volume II. Click here to see a draft version of his work, complete with footnotes. Interestingly enough, Kotik lived in the same city as Falk Zolf, the author of "On Foreign Soil."

There’s a woman in Los Angeles named Aviva Starkman who has a nice Yiddish website. She’s put up a really funny joke in Yiddish about some Indians named Pocoyenta and Geronowitz. There are also a few more examples of classic Borscht Belt humor on her site.

"OnForeignSoil.com" is the location of this next site...a reat treasure of Jewish Folklore. 79-year-old Rabbi Peretz Weizman has recorded for posterity the sounds of an old world Passover. Now you can listen to them for free on the Internet. These incredible MP3 files are available only from Benchmark Publishing.

Here's another interesting site. Some German professors have put up a collection of recorded interviews with old people describing their lives in Europe before the Second World War. These Yiddish narratives are transcribed in Latin script, so you can follow along. Visit Project EYDES and click on "Interviews" to listen to some of these fascinating sound clips.