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Names of Five Out of Six Million Jews Killed in Holocaust Now Identified
(Reuters) Steven Scheer - Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, said Monday. "Behind each name is a life that mattered - a child who never grew up, a parent who never came home, a voice that was silenced forever," said Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan. "It is our moral duty to ensure that every victim is remembered." The names of Holocaust victims, as well as personal files that tell about the lives of many of them, are compiled in an online Yad Vashem database in six languages. This database has helped countless families reunite with lost relatives and families to commemorate loved ones, particularly as most victims were left without graves. "The Nazis aimed not only to murder them, but to erase their existence. And by identifying five million names, we are restoring their human identities and ensuring that their memory endures," said Alexander Avram, director of Yad Vashem's Hall of Names, who heads the central database of victims' names.