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.
- 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.
Revived communities
Each community is a world brought back from a single memorial book. Łuków is the first, fully revived. Hundreds more still wait in the archives.
