The National Library of Israel on Tuesday launched a Facebook campaign aimed at filling in missing information from thousands of photos that captured moments in the lives of Israel Defense Forces soldiers over a period of decades.
The Naming the Soldiers project, run together with Facebook Israel, is to mark Israel’s 71st Independence Day, which starts on Wednesday night and continues Thursday.
On Tuesday, hundreds of photos of soldiers taken during various military campaigns were loaded onto the library’s Hebrew-language Facebook pageand information provided by the public will be cataloged and archived.
“We invite the Israeli public to tag and identify their loved ones, family and friends who served in Israel’s wars, so that their names will be commemorated in the annals of Israel’s history and will be preserved for the coming generations alongside the cultural and heritage treasures of the state and people which are stored in the national library,” the library said in a statement.
The project is part of a wider campaign begun last summer that aims to digitize the library’s archive of some 2.5 million photos, taken over the last 150 years, by transferring old negatives to digital format.
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