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Plans are in place to use social media platforms in an attempt to locate more than one thousand of the children who survived World War II.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington DC, has launched its 'Remember Me' campaign, using the web to try and locate 1,100 of the many thousands of children separated from their families during the war.

The museum has produced a video showing a succession of genuine photographs taken during World War II, which were collected by several aid workers at refugee centres around Europe.

The photographs provide the only source of evidence of the children's existence and identities.

The museum has called upon the public, family members of the victims and anyone who may be able to shed light and provide a clearer picture of what the fate was of the small minority who did survive.

It is vital that the children are traced quickly: 'The numbers of even the youngest of the survivors are dwindling, making it crucial to capture their testimonies as soon as possible,' said Lisa Yavnai, director of the museum's 'Survivors and Victims Resource Center'.

Approximately 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust, of whom 1.2 million were Jewish.

The Holocaust lasted for 12 years, from January 1933 until it finally came to an end in May 1945.

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