Saturday, April 23, 2011

Contribute To Holocaust Archives

May 1st will be the day in 2011 for the Jewish holiday of Yom HaShoah, which is an annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. Google is doing something great for commemoration of the Holocaust. Here's an intro on a Charisma article about it:

In line with Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, the search engine giant has partnered with Yad Vashem to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a new project that aims to preserve the world’s largest historical collection on the Holocaust.

Yad Vashem, a Jerusalem-based archive, is devoted to the documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust. With the Google partnership, its photo collection will be easier to search and encourage visitors to share personal stories and thoughts. Sharing is a key word in the Google partnership. By making the photos more accessible, Yad Vashem expects people around the world to contribute more stories behind the photos and add their knowledge to the site.
Read the entire article.

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