U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s "Remember Me" Project

Most families cherish family photographs taken years ago. Sadly, many Jewish families from European countries were denied the opportunity to preserve family photographs during the upheavals of World War II. Now the Remember Me? project, part of the Washington D.C.-based United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is working to find old photographs and even to identify the people in the pictures. More than 300 Holocaust survivors worldwide have now been identified through their childhood photographs.

The project is meant to identify the people in the photos, and to record their stories in an attempt to broaden understanding of the Holocaust and preserve the era’s history. Remember Me? has also helped survivors reconnect with loved ones from whom they were separated during the chaos of the war.

You can learn more about this worthwhile project in an article by Lidia Dinkova in The Miami Herald at http://goo.gl/nqR6Q. The Remember Me? project can be found at http://rememberme.ushmm.org/.

My thanks to newsletter reader Timothy Heck for telling me about the story.