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... survivors of the Holocaust give speeches in schools, or on TV, etc. about what happened - this gives people a first-hand account of the horrors which must not be allowed to happen again. Each year, survivors and descendants of victims place stones of remembrance on graves of those killed during the Holocaust (Shoah). Yad Vashem Yad Vashem is a Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. It was set up to ensure that further generations never forget the cruelty that was the Holocaust. Yad Vashem documents and records the events of the Holocaust and collects and records testimonies to the Holocaust. Their archives currently consist of 58 million pages of documentation and almost 100,000 photograph/video testimonies of survivors. The Hall of Names is a tribute to the victims of the Holocaust by remembering them not as anonymous numbers but as individual human beings: they have computerized more than 3.2 million names of victims of the Holocaust ...
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