Tourists visiting the Hall of Names where names and photos of Jews who perished under the Nazi regime are stored at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, yesterday. Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum announced that it has managed to identify two-thirds of the estimated six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide. “In the past decade we have succeeded in adding about 1.5 million victims’ names to the names database,” Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev said in a statement announcing the database now contains more than four million names.

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