(Ha'aretz) Cynthia Wroclawski - One of central missions of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, has been to recover the identity of every victim of the Holocaust. The Shoah Victim's Names Recovery Project has so far identified 4.2 million Shoah victims. In the areas of the former Soviet Union, some 1.5 million Jews were simply shot to death where they lived. There were no lists or records.
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