My great-grandfather Stanley I. Batkin compiled this genealogy of our family going back hundreds of years. It is bound and published. The genealogy has the family tree, photographs and stories as well as a list of those in the family who perished in the Holocaust.

In the preface of the genealogy, my great- grandfather writes: "if family history is reviewed and renewed by each succeeding generation, it can be a source of security and a sense of community.....with a sense of our own past, the present holds no fear and hopes for the future can be the inspiration on which to build a life."