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“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 of turning victims into mere statistics, 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 “That this work has reached publication 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 “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, US Department of Justice “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