personally find genealogically useless, here something totally different. I
found this announcement on another newsgroup. I know it has nothing to do
with genealogy or medieval, I still think there may be people who would like
to know about this, perhaps even can contribute to this database.
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To: <GEN-BENELUX-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 5:31 AM
Subject: [GEN-BENELUX] Yad Vashem database online
Officieel pas op 22 november, nu al voor jullie beschikbaar.
(Officially to be launched 22 November)
Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/n ... names.html
The Names Database 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 Shoah. It is the final sign of respect we
can show them. We estimate that the number of Jews commemorated in the
database to date is close to three million. The database is comprised of
Pages of Testimony, historical documentation and other sources.
Millions of names that appear in historical documents have not yet been
identified nor recorded in the database; many additional names still
linger
in the memories of survivors or in the lore of their families. Building
the
database is a work in progress.
When the Names Database goes online, we will urge Jewish families around
the world to check the database for the names of Shoah victims that they
know, and to submit unrecorded names via the site. This is a race against
time - we must redeem as many names as possible before the generation that
remembers them is no longer with us.