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DavidDvorkin

(20,436 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2025, 02:33 PM Nov 3

I found the names of two relatives murdered in the Holocaust [View all]

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial institution in Jerusalem has a searchable database of Holocaust victims. They just passed 5,000,000 names and have some hope of being able to recover 250,000 of the remaining one million.

I searched the database and found the names of my mother's mother and teenage sister:
https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/9151952
https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/9151953

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I found the names of two relatives murdered in the Holocaust [View all] DavidDvorkin Nov 3 OP

That would have been chilling... It really brings it "home" for you in a way reading about or watching reporting hlthe2b Nov 3 #1

How sobering. How did your mother escape the same fate? 3catwoman3 Nov 3 #2

She emigrated before the war DavidDvorkin Nov 3 #3

Some months ago, I found this grim description of what happened in that town DavidDvorkin Nov 3 #4

This must have been a chilling experience but you know they are not forgotten. question everything Nov 3 #5

Finding this made them much more real to me, real people DavidDvorkin Nov 3 #6

I'm so sorry. lapucelle Nov 3 #7

Thank you for sharing this with us. MLAA Nov 4 #8