Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust

Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc, 1991. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xviii, [2], 514 p. Maps. References. Select Bibliography. Illustrations. Listing of Towns; Phonetic Index of the 37, 00 town names in the book. This work documents more than 21, 000 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. It contains more than 15, 000 alternate town names by which the localities were known, including Yiddish names. From Wikipedia: "Gary Mokotoff ( born April 26, 1937 ) is an American genealogist who focuses primarily on Jewish genealogy. He is the first person to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies for which he was president (1989 1995). He is the author/coauthor of a number of books including Where Once We Walked, a gazetteer which provides information about 23, 500 towns (citing 37, 000 place names) in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust, How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust, and Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy. He was co-editor of Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy. Mokotoff is also known for his application of computers to genealogy. Among his accomplishments is co-authorship of the Daitch Mokotoff Soundex System; the JewishGen Family Finder, a database of ancestral towns and surnames being researched by some 84, 000[4] Jewish genealogists throughout the world and the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index. He is co-owner of Avotaynu, a company that publishes books of interest to Jewish genealogical researchers as well as the journal Avotaynu. He is/was on the Board of Directors of a number of organizations including the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Federation of Genealogical Societies, Association of Professional Genealogists, Jewish Book Council, Association of Jewish Book Publishers, and JewishGen. He was a pioneer of the computer software industry, joining IBM in 1959. He developed systems software that IBM supplied with its early commercial computer, the IBM 1401." From an on-line posting: "Sallyann Amdur Sack, PhD, is the only genealogist listed in Jewish Women in America. She was instrumental in founding the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy, Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington, International Associaiton of Jewish Genealogical Societies, and Avotaynu. Dr. Sack has chaired or co-chaired six of the annual conferences on Jewish Genealogy, authored seven books of use to genealogists and has consulted on numerous projects. "