Haim Roet, Who Kept Holocaust Victims’ Names Alive, Dies at 90 (www.nytimes.com)

Abraham Roet.

The names of those three Dutch Jews and others who died in the Holocaust could have easily been lost to history, their individual humanity snuffed out under the overwhelming weight of six million victims.

Haim Roet, a relative, ensured that this never happened.

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Rosina Roet.

Roet, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in a Dutch village, came up with the simple but powerful idea of memorializing Jewish victims of the Nazis by intoning their names.

I tried to find a way to make the Holocaust more personal, so people can understand the calamity of six million souls murdered for being Jewish, he said in a speech before the United Nations in 2016.

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