Lomza Yizkor Book Index

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General

This document

This document is designed for genealogical researchers who are interested in research in the city of Lomza, Poland.

Background

The 1992 Lomza Yizkor Book Index

In 1992 an effort was made to create an index of the "Sefer Zikaron Le Kehilat Lomza" (Lewinski, Y.T.,ed; 1952, Tel Aviv, Israel) also known as the Lomza Yizkor Book. The 1992 Index included mostly transliteration of the indices that the editors of the book has compiled themselves. These were a list of articles, a list of photos and some miscellaneous listings of residents of the Lomza and members of its Jewish community that seized to exist in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Poland. The 1992 Index contains 1,150 records.

The 1995 Lomza Yizkor Book Addendum Index

The 2nd Lomza Index was created in 1995 as a complementary of the first one (1992). It includes every name of a Jewish person that is mentioned in the text of the book. It does not include, however, the names of the persons that are described in the list of photographs, list of contributors and writers, etc. Thus, any name found in the 1992 index is not directly duplicated in the 1995 compilation. Of course, since descriptions and photos go hand in hand, duplications do occur. Nonetheless, the attempt was to capture the names and memories of individuals not yet recorded in the "original" 1992 index. The 1995 Index contains some 4,250 records.

Methodology

Transliteration

The method used in the 1995 index is similar to the one used in the 1992 index (see below). The main difference is that two variations spelling were dropped (only one is used in the 1995 index). In addition, the context of the event is briefly described, as well as the event's year - if known.
There are some notes to be made about the transliteration and the structure of the index. Hebrew letters are transliterated in this way: the letter Bet and Vet are distinguished (that is, allowed a secondary spelling), as well as Pey and Fey, Kuf and Chaf and Shin and Sin.
The Tzadik is transliterated TZ and the Chet or Chaf as CH.
Transliteration distinguishes between Sh and S (eg. Finstein and Finshtein.) When a K sound appears the letter K (and not C) is used, same with E (like Echo, not I), or I (not Y).
The O and U are not likely to be confused, however, a possible OO becomes a U (eg. BOORSTEIN was entered as BURSTEIN).
If you are looking for family names that starts with BEN- look for them under the B500 soundex. KATZ are all originally spelled KAT"Z which stands for Kohen-Tzedek.
In many cases when I found a V sound I translated it as both V and W letters, knowing the soundex's weakness with these cases.

Organization

The index is organized by last name Soundex. Since there is only one variation of the last name's spelling, the readers are advised to take precaution when reading names that beginning with the following sounds:

B B V,W,V

V V W
Z Z TZ, Z', J
Kh (Khet) Ch Kh, K
S (Samech) S SH
Tz (Tzadi) Tz C,Cs,Z
O (Oh) O U
U (yOU) U O,V
E (hEy) E A,V
I (In)I I E

List of codes in the "Source Type" column:

WR - Writer's entry in the book
CI - Citizens' list
RN - Rabbinic section
PI - Photo
IN - Index or Table of Contents

For an expanded explenation please read The 1992 Yizkor Book Index page

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Contact Information

The Author of this document (Index) can be reached at Yigal Rechtman.