Yizkor books, compiled by survivors after WWII, serve as crucial documents of pre-war Jewish life and the Holocaust, containing firsthand accounts and vital details for genealogists.

The identity of a murder victim, whose body was found decapitated and mutilated in 2011 in California, was recently discovered by Jewish genealogists.

The Forward has received the Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Grant at the IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.