Holocaust Database

From Yahoo:
"Database of Holocaust victims reaches 1 million names"

An effort to build a free online database of Holocaust victims and survivors has reached a milestone.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com announced Friday that records of one million people persecuted by the Nazis are now available to be searched.The crowd-sourced database was launched in 2011 and is known as the World Memory Project. Volunteer contributors from around the world have been indexing materials from the museum's archive so people can be added to the database and searched easily by name. Among the volunteers is Patricia Lewin, a retired doctor who lives in Los Angeles. She's indexed the records of more than 79,000 people. In the process, she found out that she had relatives who died in the Holocaust, even though she's not Jewish.

 

 

^ 1 million names is quite an achievement. Every person (man, woman, child) who was imprisoned and/or murdered by the Germans has a name and a story and every time we make those names and stories known we win even more over the Nazis than we did in May 1945. They sought out to destroy whole groups of people from around the world - Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Slavs, the disabled, etc.) and so their victims do not stop at 6 million, but are much larger than that. I worked at the USHMM and think this database is long overdue  - especially when you consider that those that survived the Holocaust are dying in large numbers everyday. ^

 

 

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