"Unto Every Person There is a Name" - Holocaust Remembrance Day
Date: Monday, May 6, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: In-person event at the Museum
Language: Presented in English
Cost: FREE
The Museum is proud to participate in the Unto Every Person There is a Name program in partnership with the Atlantic Jewish Council.
B’nai B’rith International, the North American sponsor of the worldwide Holocaust memorial project Unto Every Person There is a Name, now in its thirty-third year, provides the opportunity to remember the murdered Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the six million, among them one-and-a-half million children, while the world remained silent.
We, in Halifax, will join with communities throughout the world in the public recitation of names of victims of the Holocaust. This reading aloud of the names of victims who were murdered by the Nazi regime serves as an important reminder that each victim had a name and a story. For many on these lists, it is the only time their name will be said aloud as their entire family was murdered or there is no one left to remember them.
We seek to remember them not only as a collective, but rather as individuals – one at a time - through the public recitation of their names and thus help to restore their identity and dignity. By personalizing the individual tragedies of the victims of Nazi Germany and its collaborators, this project counters the persistent perpetuation of Holocaust denial and the anti-Semitism that accompanies denial.
The project is coordinated by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.