UNESCO recognizes Yad Vashem testimonies in world register

June 20, 2013 6:28am

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony memorial repository was included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

Stranice svjedočanstva ( Pages of testimonies) u Yad Vashemu -  memorijalni registar je uključen u UNESCO-v svjetski registar sjećanja. Yad Vashem je  od  1954. sakupljao  stranice sjećanja- formulare koji su ispunjeni u sjećanju na žrtve Holokausta, dokumentirano je oko 2,6 milijuna imena.

To je prvi  puta da se izraelska kolekcija uključena u registar UNESCA koji je osnovan 1955.  i sadrži  299 naslova koji se čuvaju od  generalnog direktora United Nations  Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Zajedno s drugom dokumentacijom Yad Vashem je uspio identificiratu 4,2 milijuna žrtva od ukupno 6 molijuna ubijenih i Shoa.

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The repository is housed in the Hall of Names at the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The collection was uploaded to the Yad Vashem website as part of the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names and is available in English, Hebrew, Russian, German and Spanish.

“For many Holocaust survivors and their families, Pages of Testimony are the only tangible evidence that their murdered loved ones once lived,” Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev said. “The Nazis and their collaborators strove to murder each and every Jewish man, woman and child, and to erase any vestige of their existence.

These pages, together with information gathered from around the world as part of our names recovery efforts, restore to them their names, their identities.”