IDENTIFYING VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS

Yad Vashem continues to collect names and records of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. To date, close to 4.8 million of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices are commemorated on the Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah (Holocaust) Victim’s Names. This database includes information regarding victims of the Shoah, including those who were murdered and some whose fate has yet to be determined.

HALL OF NAMES

Millions were murdered without a trace during the Holocaust. There are approximately 2.7 million Pages of Testimony available. Each Page records the victim's full name, date and place of birth, place of residence before the war, profession, parents' and spouse's names, and circumstances of death, as well as a photograph when available. The Pages are completed by survivors or their descendants, as well as friends or acquaintances of victims, and stored for perpetuity in Yad Vashem’s Hall of Names as a public commemoration.

CALL TO ACTION

Over one million victims remain unidentified. Yad Vashem is issuing an urgent call to Jewish families and communities to recover their names. Unless we complete this vital mission soon, some of them may be lost to us forever. This is a race against time, before those who remember them are no longer with us.