To recruit skilled staff for the project, a newspaper advertisement was posted; but most of the applicants had no records of prior education because those were lost in the Holocaust (the World War II genocide of the European Jews) or during immigration.
To recruit skilled staff for the project, a newspaper advertisement was posted. Most of the applicants had no records of prior education because those were lost in the Holocaust or during immigration, but in Israel's budding technical community everyone knew or knew about everybody else. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. 
