{"id":302,"date":"2004-11-21T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2004-11-21T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T15:34:30","slug":"at-holocaust-museum-turning-a-number-into-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/21\/at-holocaust-museum-turning-a-number-into-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"“At Holocaust Museum, Turning a Number Into a Name”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after I saw this Times article<\/a>, I immediately went and had a look at The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I don’t know anyone personally who was killed in the Holocaust, but I remember my good friend Rachel Rosmarin mentioning that she had some relatives, so I tried her family name. There were 488 results. <\/p>\n

I clicked the first one<\/a>, Rivka Rozmarin from Odessa (based on this record<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Riva Rozmarin was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1932 to Yakov and Gusta. She was a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Odessa, Ukraine. During the war was in Odessa, Ukraine. Riva died in Odessa, Ukraine. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her aunt from Ukraine.<\/i><\/p>\n

Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So after I saw this Times article, I immediately went and had a look at The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. I don’t know anyone personally who was killed in the Holocaust, but I remember my good friend Rachel Rosmarin mentioning that she had some relatives, so I tried her family name. There were 488 results. I clicked the first one, Rivka Rozmarin from Odessa (based on this record): Riva Rozmarin was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1932 to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-personal","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-4S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}