22.12.2010                          15.Tevet, 5771

Shoah:

2/3 of Holocaust victims now identified

Yad Vashem adds 1.5 million names to list over past decade; four million names currently known, some 2.2 million come from Pages of Testimony.

Yad Vashem announced on Tuesday that it has identified two-thirds of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust, a total of four million names thus far.
“In the past decade we have succeeded in adding about 1.5 million victims’ names to the Names Database, increasing by some 60 percent the information we had,” said Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev….