Tomorrow .......Marking the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

Tomorrow we remember those the Nazis murdered.

News from Vad Vashem.*

 "During the Holocaust, the Nazis endeavored to obliterate the identity of every Jewish man, woman, and child. 

Since the 1950s, Yad Vashem has worked tirelessly to gather the names of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. "The Book of Names of Holocaust Victims" memorializes each of the 4,800,000 individuals whose names are commemorated in Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.** 

Every name, birth date, hometown and place of death is clearly printed on meter-high pages and illuminated by a gentle strip of light that lies between each page. 

The monumental size of the book attests to the collective, immeasurable loss to the entire Jewish people, and to humanity. The blank pages of the book's final volume, symbolize the names still to be redeemed, recorded and memorialized, in perpetuity, by Yad Vashem.

Yad Vashem will be installing The Book of Names at the United Nations Headquarters for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ***

The opening event will be broadcast live on Thursday, 26 January at 1:30 PM EST via Yad Vashem's Facebook Page and via UNTV.  The Book of Names will be on display in New York through 17 February 2023 and is open to the public for viewing. The Book will then be brought to Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, where it will be on permanent display beginning April 2023.

Pictures; courtesy of Vad Vashem 

*Vad Vashem, https://www.yadvashem.org/about.html

** "The Book of Names of Holocaust Victims", https://www.yadvashem.org/press-release/19-january-2023-10-35.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=book-of-names&utm_content=live-stream

 ***Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names https://yvng.yadvashem.org/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=book-of-names&utm_content=live-stream