In the winter of 1943, Shershev, a five hundred year old Jewish community in Belarus, was destroyed in the Holocaust. Moishe Kantorowitz, who survived two years in Auschwitz, spent the rest of his life painstakingly documenting his hometown and memorializing those who were murdered. 

 

The Shershev Compendium features his memoir and his highly detailed hand-drawn map of the community, as well as every available historical resource related to the destroyed village. This remarkable document is one of the most complete of its kind, a monument to a place and people that the Nazis sought to erase from history. 

 

The Shershev Compendium