Members of the West Virginia University and Morgantown communities will remember victims of the Holocaust April 23-24 in front of the WVU Mountainlair.

Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Martyrs’and Heroes’Remembrance Day, will begin at noon Wednesday, April 23, and continue uninterrupted for 24 hours, said Eric McCormick, secretary of WVU Hillel House, which is sponsoring the event. During the observance, participants will read aloud names of Holocaust victims.

The Holocaust, carried out by the Nazis during World War II, claimed an estimated 12 million victims, including 6 million Jews. Not all of the victims’names are known, and participants in the local reading will recite names from a partial list provided by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’and Heroes’Remembrance Authority, McCormick said.

The local observance is part of”Unto Every Person There Is A Name,”an international project whose objectives are to remember those who perished in the Holocaust and continue collecting names of unidentified victims.

Those interested in participating in the local observance may either call Hillel House at 296-2660 to schedule a reading time in advance or sign up during the days of the event.