Names, Not Numbers is a

holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

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program offered to schools, universities and museums around the US, Canada and Israel. The films follow students as they learn the main aspect of filmmaking from journalists and filmmakers including research, interviewing techniques, filming techniques and editing, to prepare them to interview and film survivors and liberators themselves. They also undergo the rigorous process of editing their survivors’ 1.5 hour interview down to 15 minutes, which is added to the

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as the extended version of their survivors interview. The interviews are further cut down and intertwined with the other survivors who were interviewed for the same school that given year, and the feature-length films are screened at the end of the school year for the students, their families, the participants, and the community. Each film is archived at the

National Library of Israel The National Library of Israel (NLI; he, הספרייה הלאומית, translit=HaSifria HaLeumit; ar, المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; he, בית הספרים הלא� ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, Yeshiva University's Special Collections Library, and

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...

, the official memorial for the victims of the holocaust in Israel. Currently there are 62 schools participating in the Names Not Numbers program, includin
Kellman Brown Academy
The Mesivta High School of Greater Philadelphia, YUHSB, YUHSG, the

Moriah School The Moriah School is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school located in Englewood, New Jersey. It educates nearly 800 students from nursery through eighth grade. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 692 students in grades ...

Hillel Torah

SAR Academy Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy, better known by the acronym, SAR Academy, is a coeducational, private Modern Orthodox Jewish day school. The school is located in the Riverdale section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Its name de ...

and

Kushner The surname Kushner is an English-based transliteration of the Yiddish name קושנער, a variant of קושניר ( Kushnir), an occupational name stemming from קירזשנער (kirzshner), a furrier. This is related to the German word Kürsch ...

, amongst other

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s. Names Not Numbers was founded by Tova Fish-Rosenberg in 2004. It has since become a

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. Academy Award-winning producer Michael Berenbaum is among the Board of Directors in the organization.

External links

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