: As stated previously, its the first letter of the Hebrew word for 'murdered'.  Its also offensive and presumptuous to assume that Jews would not be bothered by having their victims' deaths labeled by a dagger similar to a Christian cross. As well you need to give people more credit for being able to figure out that the symbol assigned to the Jewish victims refers to their murders. I am reverting your insensitive deletion of the Hebrew symbol. After you have purged the entire collection of Wikipedias of Latin symbols, which 99% of all readers also don't understand, you can return here to argue your case.