Two-thirds of Holocaust victims now identified
A list of confirmed names of Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II has reached the 4 million mark, Israel’s Holocaust museum announced overnight.
But the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial warned that the identity of all 6 million dead may never be known.
“It is a moral imperative, an obligation for us, to retrieve information and commemorate each and every individual who perished,” said Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem.
“By doing so, a lot of important material comes up in our research to help combat Holocaust denial,” he said.
Yad Vashem has sorted through “millions of occurrences of names” over nearly six decades of research and taking testimony from survivors.