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Commemoration
 
 
In the Commemoration section you will find information about projects designed to perpetuate the memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, such as Yad Vashem’s Unto Every Person There is a Name, various museums and websites.
 
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Unto Every Person There is a Name
This page includes some information about the world-wide Holocaust memorial project, "Unto Every Person There Is a Name". The purpose of the project is to perpetuate the memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust by public recitation of their names on Yom Hashoah - the Day of Remembrance.
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
The Central Database of Holocaust Victims is an international undertaking led by Yad Vashem, from Jerusalem. It is the attempt to reconstruct the names and life stories of all the Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
The International School for Holocaust Studies
The International School for Holocaust Studies, established in 1993, organizes educational programs and produces educational materials for a variety of target populations and educational organizations in Israel and abroad.
International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
Of Beth Hatefutsoth – The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora and its role in telling the story of the Jewish People during more than 2,500 years of life in the Diaspora, and about the International Day of Commemoration declared by the U.N. in 2005.
Holocaust Task Force

The Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research aims to enlist the support of political and social leaders for Holocaust education, remembrance, and research both nationally and internationally. Initiated by Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson in 1998, the Task Force currently has twenty-four member countries.

The Zachor website
The Zachor website focuses on Jewish faith during the Holocaust. The website contains archival documents (some of which are being made public for the first time), research studies, abstracts of books, and explanations of concepts.
The Ghetto Fighters' House
The Ghetto Fighters' House Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, named after the poet Yitzhak Katzenelson, was founded by a community of Holocaust survivors, former members of the Jewish underground in the ghetto and former partisans. In 1948 they came to their ancient homeland, ISRAEL, to renew their life in the young State of Israel and to preserve and share the story of the Jewish People before, during and after World War II.
International Holocaust Remebrance Day
Yad Vashem’s mini-site, erected in honor of the first UN-endorsed International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The mini-site is aimed at providing information on the Holocaust, as well as helping schools and other organizations around the world prepare for the day. 
Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Haim Ichud
Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Haim Ichud was erected in memory of the Jews of Ghetto Theresienstadt who perished during the Nazi persecution. The corner stone was laid in 1969 and the official opening was in 1975. The "Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association" built this edifice through the initiative of the surviving members of the Zionist Youth Movement and the "Hechalutz" organization living in Israel. Not a mute monument but a living and active institution.
International  Holocaust Remembrance Day - Eductional Materials
The Yad Vashem website offers a selection of educational materials developed in order to help educators prepare ceremonies and lesson plans for middle school and high school students. 
 
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