Holocaust victims' biographies online

Biographical details of three million Jews killed in the Holocaust are to be posted on the web for the first time.

Israel's Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, said it was a "duty" to ensure that the six million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis will not be forgotten.

The museum called its website a "work in progress" and said it would work to retrieve the details of every victim.

The database is partly based on more than two million "pages of testimony" given by survivors, family and friends.

From the BBC. The Yad Vashem remembrance project may be reached here.

Posted by David on November 22, 2004 7:55 PM