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Nearly two-thirds of Jewish Holocaust victims identified

Jerusalem - Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre announced Monday it was close to identifying the names of some two- thirds of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.

The number of names known to the centre has doubled in the last ten years, from two million to four million, Archives Director Haim Gertner told journalists.

'The digitilisation process helped very much,' he said....
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