The project of documentation and perpetuation of the names of Jews who died during the Shoah

The Jewish calendar has many dates associated with the most important events in the life of our people. These events are, as a rule, tragic, although sometimes with a happy outcome: slavery and liberation (Pesach); demand for destruction and complete victory (Purim); war and miracle (Hanukkah).

...On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. But no one could call this event a happy outcome.

Soviet soldiers found about 7,500 prisoners in the camp, whom they did not have time to destroy or take away, and in the partially surviving warehouse barracks - 1,185,345 men's and women's suits... There is no need to clarify what happened to their owners.

7.5 thousand survivors and more than a million exterminated Jews - this is January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

This date was celebrated for the first time on January 27, 2006 by the decision of the UN.

And in the same year, the Yad Vashem memorial project began work on the search for the names of Jews who died during the Shoa (Holocaust) in the occupied territories of the former USSR.

In contrast to post-war Europe, where witnesses followed the bloody traces of the Holocaust, documentation and collection of official materials, photographs, facts and lists was carried out - in the Soviet Union before perestroika there were not even such terms as Holocaust, the Catastrophe of the Jewish People. The collection of materials began only in the 1990s.

The Yad Vashem naming project is the last "rush" in the race against time. Hundreds of thousands of names were found and immortalized during this work. http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/ru/remembrance/names/index.asp

We are obliged to continue it, and today we need to hurry, while the witnesses of the tragedy and their children, who know well what happened to their relatives during the war, are still alive.

On this day - January 27 - and in the following days, remember those who did not survive that terrible war. Tell us their names. The Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, the keeper of the memory of the exterminated Jews, is waiting for your testimonies.

Today is not too late! Don't wait until tomorrow...