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The moral imperative of a name: Yad Vashem documents five million Holocaust victims

JL;DR SUMMARY Yad Vashem has reached a significant milestone by recovering the names of five million Holocaust victims, an effort aimed at restoring the dignity stripped by the Nazis and transforming empty statistics into real lives and stories. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityYad VashemSurvivor TestimoniesKristallnachtHolocaust VictimsMemory PreservationDigital ToolsMoral ImperativeNames Recovery

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Jerusalem, Israel
"The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Yad Vashem, recently announced a monumental achievement in its mission to preserve the memory and identity of the six million Jews murdered during the Shoah."
New York, United States
"This years milestone was acknowledged during the Yad Vashem USA Foundations annual Kristallnacht commemoration in New York."

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