Last Month, Yad Vashem Unveiled the Book of Names, an Enormous Installation That Lists the Nearly Five Million Holocaust Victims Who Have Been Documented So Far. Since Most Don’t Have a Tombstone, This Is an Important Way to Memorialize Them in a Manner That Is Both Concrete and Personal
The Pernkopf atlas was once prized by surgeons, until they learned whose bodies were used as the models for its illustrations. Now a new problematic atlas has emerged, and this one includes biographical details about the victims
Yad Vashem has gathered 4,800,000 names of Jews children murdered during the Shoah. The Book of Names of Holocaust Victims is the single largest physical manifestation of remembrance of its kind.
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According to Yad Vashem expert estimates, in the coming years, some 200,000-300,000 names could be added to the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.