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What’s in a Jewish Name?

What’s in a Jewish Name?

Max Lehmann was my husband’s grandfather. I found his information on a page in the “The Book of Names,” when I attended the Yad Vashem unveiling of its new exhibit in the UN Headquarters last Thursday. Timed to coincide with the 2023 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, along with Israel’s Permanent Mission to the UN, presented “The Book of Names of Holocaust Victims.” It contains the names of 4,800,000 Holocaust victims, and whenever possible, their date of birth, and their place of birth and death.


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