Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum announced yesterday that it has managed to identify two-thirds of the estimated six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide.
"In the past decade we have succeeded in adding about 1.5 million victims' names to the names database," Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev said in a statement announcing the database now contains more than four million names.
"The Germans sought not only to destroy the Jews, but to obliterate any memory of them," said Shalev
"One of Yad Vashem's central missions since its foundation, the recovery of each and every victim's name and personal story, has resulted in relentless efforts to restore the names and identities of as many of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices as possible."