4 million Shoah victims identified

Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority announced that it has collected the names of 4 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Some two-thirds of the total number of Jewish victims estimated to have been murdered by the Nazis.  Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev said that during the last decade the museum's staff had tracked some 1.5 million names and added them to the databases. "The Germans not only wanted to annihilate the Jews, but also to wipe them from memory," Shalev said. "One of Yad Vashem's central aims is to give a face and a name to each Holocaust victim, and give them back their identities. We have managed to use technology in the service of memory, and thus accelerated the collection of names and the accessibility of the information for people around the world."