Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish WorldA powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost world By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and entire way of life. Their response was quintessentially Jewish. From a people with a long history of self narration, survivors gathered in groups and wrote books, yizkor books, remembering all that had