Reviving the communities
the world forgot
Survivors wrote Yizkor books to hold everything left of the communities the Holocaust erased. Kehilot opens those books — turning a closed, forgotten volume into a living, searchable memory.
From a closed book to a living memory
Four steps turn a forgotten volume back into a place you can enter — without ever changing a word of the original. The fifth belongs to the families.
- 01Forgotten
A book falls silent
A memorial book is digitized but unread — hundreds of scanned pages in Yiddish and Hebrew, a script few descendants can still read.
- 02Read
Every word recovered
We recover the text page by page with OCR and keep the original exactly as written — the source is never altered, only opened.
- 03Understood
Names become a world
AI reads the pages into a graph of people, families, places, institutions, and events — each tied to the exact passage that names them.
- 04Alive
A memory you can walk
Search a family, follow a guided path, ask a question, translate a passage — and every answer opens back to the original page.
Create a memorial plate for your family
The books hold names; families hold the rest. A book can say that someone lived — it cannot say what they were to you. A plate is where you put that back.
- In the family's own words — what the book could never record
- Tied back to the books — shown on the records that name them
- Its own page and link — kept as testimony, never as evidence
Revived communities
Each community is a world brought back from a single memorial book, extracted and evidence-linked. Hundreds more still wait in the archives.
Łuków
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the community of Łuków.
Białystok
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the community of Białystok.
Sokółka
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the community of Sokółka.
Lwów
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the community of Lwów (Lviv).
Łódź
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the community of Łódź.
Drohiczyn
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the community of Drohiczyn.
Skala-Podilska
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the community of Skala-Podilska.
David-Horodok
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the river town of David-Horodok on the Horyn.
Chmielnik
Jewish life, families, trades, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the market town of Chmielnik in the Kielce region.
Będzin
Jewish life, families, trades, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in Będzin, the industrial town of Zagłębie.