We were mentioned on Ynet, which resulted in many new users. There are now more than 5000 associations of email addresses with Pages of Testimony through ShoahConnect. Please contact me if you can help with publicity.

ShoahConnect.org was featured in an article in Haaretz newspaper on June 5. If you can read Hebrew, check it out at http://themarker.captain.co.il/captain/pages/ShArtCaptain.jhtml?contrassID=11&subContrassID=0&itemNo=867300 .

YOU can help reunite families separated by the Shoah. Please share the announcement below with survivors, their families, and anyone searching for lost relatives. It describes my new free website (ShoahConnect.org) that allows email addresses to be associated with Pages of Testimony on Yad Vashem's website, and matches people associated with the same Pages. Pages of Testimony document individual victims of the Shoah, and were often submitted by their relatives. As recently as 2006, a brother and sister found each other through Page of Testimony research, proving it is not too late. You can help make more dramatic reunions like this possible, by trying to get as many people as possible to use the site. The more users there are, the more chances there are for matches and reunion.

NEW WEBSITE REUNITES FAMILIES SEPARATED BY THE SHOAH

A new website has been launched to reunite families separated by the Shoah (Holocaust), www.ShoahConnect.org. ShoahConnect provides a tool to associate email addresses with the more than two million Pages of Testimony on Yad Vashem's website (www.yadvashem.org), automatically matches people associated with the same Pages, and facilitates semi-private contact between them. The site is completely non-commercial.

Anyone who submitted a Page of Testimony to Yad Vashem or is searching for lost relatives can potentially benefit from ShoahConnect. Immediate family members of deceased submitters are also encouraged to use the service. ShoahConnect aims to increase the number of dramatic family reunions that happen when close relatives discover each other through a Page of Testimony memorializing a common relative.

A detailed discussion of ShoahConnect, including an interview with its creator, can be read on a Jewish genealogy blog at http://shorashim.blogli.co.il/archives/235 (English) or http://shorashim.blogli.co.il/archives/236 (Hebrew).

ShoahConnect is available in English, with partial translations into Hebrew, Danish, Polish, and Portuguese, and more languages are being added by volunteers.

For more information, visit www.ShoahConnect.org or contact logan@ShoahConnect.org.