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The Hawai‘i Board of Geographic Names during its April 2 meeting began a discussion about possibly changing the island’s official name in the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System, or GNIS.

Considering the Amount of Original Holocaust Research That Has Been Done in Recent Decades, Is This Number Still Considered Accurate by Scholars of the Subject?

Yad Vashem will mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust through a range of events both in-person and online. Chosen by the United Nations in 2005 to serve as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp…

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In a boon for scholars and amateur researchers, records from Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust authority, are now

Museum teams up New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to create new tool for researching the Shoa

Yad Vashem adds records of some 4.8 million victims to the largest Jewish genealogy site.

Yad Vashem adds records of some 4.8 million victims to the largest Jewish genealogy site.