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Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/10/racing-time-to-name-every-victim/
Holocaust Museum Racing Time to Name Every Victim
(Washington Times) Jay Bushinsky - Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum has identified 3.6 million Jews who lost their lives to Nazi Germany's genocide and is trying to identify the rest while survivors are still alive. "We are in a race against time," said American-born Cynthia Wroclawski, outreach manager of the Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project. "Our mission is to reach people who have information." Most of Yad Vashem's data have been drawn from the "pages of testimony" given by Holocaust survivors and others who have evidence that their relatives or friends were killed by the Nazis. Complicating the identification of survivors, said Shlomo Aronson of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, is that the Waffen-SS and other Nazi units that engaged in mass killings throughout Eastern Europe did not record the names of their victims. Nor were Soviet Jewish casualties registered as Jews.