| Lily Poritz Miller (left) and Olga Zabludoff with local Lithuanian woman |
| Olga Zabludoff is a writer and an editor who started her career with Macmillan in New York. In Washington, DC she was editor of Public Telecommunications Review, the official magazine of the public television industry. In 2003 she supervised the restoration of the Jewish cemetery and mass gravesites in Butrimonys, the first such project accomplished in Lithuania with the help of the local population. Her feature story on this project appeared in the Winter 2004 AVOTAYNU. She is publisher of Remembrance Books, a company she founded in 1998. |
| Lily Poritz Miller is an editor the publishing houses of Macmillan and McGraw-Hill in New York and for 18 years was senior editor at McClelland and Stewart in Toronto. She is presently at work on a feature film script Paved in Gold inspired by the Yiddish letters in the book A Thousand Threads. |
| "If I Forget Thee..., a deeply powerful and moving account of life and death in the shtetl of Butrimantz, does much to cherish and preserve Jewish memory. While the overwhelming enormity of the Holocaust has all too often had the effect this book forces the reader to honor the sanctity of each and every person who found themselves trapped in that nightmare and to better appreciate a vanished existence." Neal M. Sher, Former Director Office of Special Investigations US Department of Justice |
| is in itself a story of survival and remembrance only slightly less impressive than the testimony of the survivors. Each writer is faithful to the past, each bears witness for the future. Not quite a history of a village, If I Forget Thee... adds to our understanding of the relationship between Jews and Lithuanians as well as the struggle to find places to hide in the most dangerous era of Jewish history." Michael Berenbaum, President Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation |
| "This book - the history of the Jews from one small Lithuanian town during World War II - becomes a tiny, but valuable, part of the great tapestry being woven by survivors chronicling the fate of the Jewish people in the cauldron of Nazi-controlled Europe." Washington Jewish Week |
| "What a powerful and poignant book. All who have participated in this project have performed a great service to humanity, to justice, and to memory...." Eli M. Rosenbaum U.S. Department of Justice |
| Translated from the Russian by Eva Tverskoy Edited by Olga Zabludoff and Lily Poritz Miller |
| Remembrance Books 2475 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 721 Washington, DC 20037-2639 Email: ozabludoff@verizon.net |
| If I Forget Thee... 6" x 9", 152 pages, paperback Includes 32 pages of photographs US $14.95 / CAD $19.95 |
| Also by Remembrance Books a story told through Yiddish letters |