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Yom HaShoah: Every name

On April 16, on Yom HaShoah, names of Holocaust victims will be recited from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. (Israel time) at a ceremony at Yad Vashem’s Hall of Remembrance in Jerusalem.

For 25 years, the Unto Every Person There is a Name project has been assiduously fulfilling its difficult and demanding task of collecting the name of each and every Holocaust victim. The names of the victims are recited at the ceremony.

This year, the public is invited to submit the names of Holocaust victims online. They will then be read by a volunteer at the ceremony.

For us in the Diaspora, this provides a unique opportunity to participate —virtually — in the ceremony and know that our loved ones will be acknowledged.

“Whoever preserves a single soul of Israel, Scripture ascribes merit to him as though he had preserved a complete world” (Sanhedrin 37a).

We can no longer save the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. But we can remember them. We can recite the names, aloud, of each and every individual. And through our remembrance, their spirits may continue to live.

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