Since 1989, B’nai B’rith International has served as the official North American sponsor of the Yom Hashoah program Unto Every Person There is a Name. With B’nai B’rith’s help, many communities across the globe gather on Yom Hashoah each year to commemorate the Holocaust. The 2019 theme: “The War Within the War – The Struggle of the Jews to Survive during the Holocaust.”

For Unto Every Person There is a Name, participants read the names of Holocaust victims – the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, as well as noting where they were born and where they died. For many victims on these lists, it is the only time their name, and thus their life, may be remembered each year, as their entire family was murdered or there is no one left to remember them. B’nai B’rith has also provided yellow stars that read “Never Forget the Six Million” available to wear at programs

B’nai B’rith and our partner organization Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity collaborate on Holocaust programming, uniting to bring Unto Every Person There is a Name to 130 university campuses as part of AEPi’s own Holocaust Remembrance Day program, “We Walk to Remember,”  when AEPi brothers and other volunteers walk silently across their campuses wearing “Never Forget” stickers provided by B’nai B’rith. The We Walk program launched in 2006. We also supply AEPi with pamphlets on the importance of Yom Hashoah and outline how each year’s theme relates to the Holocaust, so the fraternity brothers can help educate fellow students on campus.

Beyond remembrance, the program offers awareness and education about the Holocaust at a time when few survivors remain to tell the story firsthand