Kaddish for 100 Books

Join us for a special commemorative event honoring the memory of Jewish soldiers who were never given a proper Jewish burial.

Books of Memory (11 volumes) originally published in 1992-2015, contain the names of more than 100,000 Jewish individuals who perished while serving in the armed forces of the former Soviet Union during World War II. With the passage of time, most of the men and women named in the volumes have been forgotten. 

The Books of Memory are available at major Jewish history repositories like Yad Vashem, Holocaust Museum, Russian WW2 History Center, and collections in family libraries around the world.

Recently, Bay Area Jewish community members discovered about 100 duplicate copies of the Books, and felt that they could not just be recycled, but needed to be treated as symbolic and sacred items, such any religious text or the American Flag.

In keeping with the tradition of how to properly dispose of Torah scrolls, these Books will be buried at a local cemetery on May 8, Allied Victory in Europe Day (known as V-E Day to mark the Allies' formal acceptance of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender).

Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Memorial Day, also falls on May 11.

This is a follow-up event to Lost Kaddish.