Abstract
Memorial books, also known as village histories, memorialize a village, a district, a region, or a country that no longer exists. They are compiled by former inhabitants of places lost to the uprooting and dispersal of entire populations by war, systematic persecution, or the redrawing of national frontiers. The custom of creating books to document the destruction of place is to be found among East European Jewish survivors of the Holocaust; among Armenian survivors of the 1915-20 Genocide by Ottoman Turkey, as well as in German-speaking communities in Eastern Europe uprooted after World War II; and among Palestinians turned into refugees by the establishment of the State of Israel. That the genre of “memorial book” continues to be productive is demonstrated by the most recent series to commemorate newly destroyed villages: a projected series of volumes on the Community of Bosnia began with the commemoration of the Bosnian Muslim village of Foca, which was destroyed in April-May 1992.
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