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Back to Gombin, by Minna Packer $49.99

Within a tapestry of film, video and stills, Back To Gombin tells the story of a group of 50 descendents who return to Gombin in acts of reconciliation, healing and discovery. Artistically, the film incorporates rare archival film footage shot in Gombin in 1937. This is contrasted by 16mm film shot in Gombin today. A strong statement is made about the continuity of life, Jewish life reborn, and the need of subsequent generations to remember and heal intergroup relations. $49.99 DVD format $49.99 VHS (US) format VHS, 58 minutes, Distributed by National Center for Jewish Film

Jewish Gombin 1937

$25 - DVD format $20 - VHS (US) format $35 - VHS (European) format On a trip to his hometown in 1937, Sam Rafel, then president of the Gombin society in New Jersey, shot several minutes of 18mm silent footage of the Jews of Gombin. The Gombin Society recovered this footage and had it digitally restored by October Films. These remastered images are a haunting document of Jewish life in Gombin shortly before the Holocaust. VHS/DVD Prices include shipping costs

The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe $26.00

English Hebrew Yiddish Albert Barry traveled to Lithuania and Latvia in the spring of 1999 to document the old wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe. From hours and hours of professional footage, Barry and his award-winning team have distilled the experience, the immediacy of their search, in order to bring the viewer with them into these poignant structures. Every collection which deals with the benchmark of the twentieth century will want to include The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe. VHS, 48 minutes, Available in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish Price includes required Florida sales tax

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Business Directory of 1925 $10.00

The Gombin "yellow pages" of the 1920s, featuring a general description of the infrastructure of production and services, and a detailed list of the merchants and artisans who were economically active in the town during the inter-war period. The material is supplemented with background readings on the demography and economics of the Polish Jews, and on their role in commerce and in the artisanal industry. 50 pages, First published 1997

Memorial Initiatives in Gombin and Chelmno $10.00

An illustrated report of a fact-finding mission to Warsaw, Gombin, and Chelmno in March 1997. Includes descriptions of Gombin-related materials obtained at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and narrative characterizations of the condition of the Gombin Jewish cemetery and the Rzuchowski forest site at Chelmno, where the Gombin Jews were murdered in the Spring of 1942. Discuses the prospects for projects to restore the Jewish cemetery in Gombin and dedicate a memorial monument for the Gombin Jews at Chelmno. 45 pages, 50 illust., First published 1997

Old Registry Book of Gombin $10.00

In the final years of the 19th century, an index began to be compiled of the names and residences of both Jewish and non-Jewish residents of Gombin. They are grouped by surname and by household and was regularly updated until 1930, listing each new birth and emigration from the town. The book was written in Russian until 1914, when it was replaced with Polish. It has been suggested that this index was intended to assist in locating conscripts for the Czar's Army. 51 pages, First published 1999

Yizkor Book - Gombin: Life and Destruction of a Jewish Town in Poland $18.00

Reprint of the Gombin Memorial Book, which was originally published in New York by the Gombiner Landsmanschaft in America, under coordination of Jack Zychlin. The Yizkor Book is the most important source of knowledge about Jewish society and culture in Gombin, and its destruction during the Holocaust. It contains a variety of writings by Gombiners, including recollections of landseit who emigrated before the war and testimonies of Holocaust survivors. The Yizkor section mentions the names hundreds of Gombiners and includes photographs of dozens of families from the shtetl. 390 pages, 276 illust. (in English and Yiddish), First published 1969

A Soldier's Journal, by David Rothbart $25.95

An extraordinary memoir of the 22nd Infantry Regiment during World War II, a unit that Ernest Hemingway stayed with for five months, from the drive across France to the bloody Battle of the Hurtgen Forest. It begins with David Rothbart's enlistment in the Army in 1942 and follows him through training and combat in the European Theater of Operations. With great sensitivity, Rothbart describes daily snapshots of army life and combat from Normandy to Nuremberg. The result is a memoir so rich in character, detail, and atmosphere that the reader will feel that he is shoulder-to-shoulder with men from the "Greatest Generation." 320 pages, with illustrations, Autographed by the author

God Hid His Face, by Rajzel Zychlinsky $25.00

A definitive collection of the translated poems of Gombiner Rajzel Zychlinsky (1910-2001). Zychlinsky writes of womanhood, motherhood, solitude and nature. But she has been most widely commended for her Holocaust poems. "When one reads her poems, one is convinced that only poets can rescue this most tragic episode in the life of the Jewish people from the jaws of meaninglessness," writes Emanuel Goldsmith in his introductory essay. Translated from the Yiddish by Barnett Zumoff, Aaron Kramer, Marek Kanter, and others Introduction by Emanuel S. Goldsmith 320 pages, with illustrations, Autographed by the author

Memory and Understanding: Family and History in Poland and Cuba, by Arthur M. Stupay $18.95

A treasure trove of family life and experience in prewar Poland, Gombiner Arthur Stupay has collected in this volume primary material, including the letters of the Wloclawek family of Gombin and photographs of the Gombin synagogue and its Jewish families. The book also discusses a little-known chapter in American Jewish history, when many Polish immigrants tried to enter the United States from Cuba in the 1920s. Stupay shows how the opportunity to plum personal history and collective memory enriches the present and may provide new insights into the past.