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...Kay said the process of reading names individually helped ensure continued contemplation and remembrance of the Holocaust's atrocities...
...This is a way to personalize the tragedy," Kay said. "It's easy to just say that six million people died, but when you say each name, [the Holocaust] becomes a lot more significant...
...Though Kay acknowledged that a majority of the participants were Jewish students, he and co-coordinator Michal Engelman '01 said they were nonetheless heartened by the number of non-Jewish people who signed up to read names...
Among other groups, representatives from the Black Students Association (BSA), the Arab Students Alliance and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) agreed to participate in the reading, Kay said...
Standing under umbrellas and speaking into a microphone wrapped in plastic, the participants battled heavy rain and wind to read in five-minute shifts from a book listing 19,000 Holocaust victims. According to Kay, it takes about five years for participants to read through all of the names...