Who were the "six million" murdered in the Holocaust? The number is almost impossible to comprehend. It does not convey who they were, where they lived, information about their families, what their dreams were, how they died, or whether and how they were related to us. The Jews are a people of memory: our history is an integral part of us and we pass it from generation to generation. Millions of our brethren were murdered without a trace during the Shoah. It is incumbent upon us to remember them. Since 1955, Yad Vashem has been fulfilling its mandate to preserve the memory of Holocaust victims by collecting their names, the ultimate representation of a person’s identity.
The Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project aims to memorialize each individual Jew murdered in the Holocaust by recording their names, biographical details and photographs on special forms created by Yad Vashem, called Pages of Testimony. Some one million victims remain unidentified. Yad Vashem is issuing an urgent call to Jewish families and communities to recover their names. Unless we assume responsibility for completing this vital mission, 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.
Search/Submit Names of Holocaust Victims
The names and biographical details of 5 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust
Do you know of Jews murdered in the Holocaust? Submit Pages of Testimony online
Pages of Testimony forms and instructions in 12 languages
By joining our IRemember Wall, your name will be randomly matched with the name of a Holocaust victim from our Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, and will appear together on the Wall.
The names and biographical details of 5 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust
Do you know of Jews murdered in the Holocaust? Submit Pages of Testimony online
Pages of Testimony forms and instructions in 12 languages
By joining our IRemember Wall, your name will be randomly matched with the name of a Holocaust victim from our Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, and will appear together on the Wall.
Connections and Discoveries: Featured Stories
“You cannot describe this in words. I grew up alone and I was immune to crying; I didn’t know how. But last night, I cried.”
Ran Shemesh's story of discovering his grandfather's cousin begins with a picture of a young girl and her brother standing in a park
Teacher from Moscow Finds Family in Israel
Sisters Klara Blaier and Hannah Katz were reunited after the granddaughter of one of the sisters conducted a search on Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
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Editors: Bella Gutterman and Avner Shalev
Mediating between a world that is no more and life rebuilt, the book leads the reader through the historical events as presented at the Yad Vashem Museum Complex, with documents, works of art and thousands of photographs.
Articles by Joan Ockman, Moshe Safdie, Avner Shalev, Elie Wiesel
This book explores how architecture confronts the challenges of commemoration and discusses the work of one of today’s leading architects.
Editor: Safira Rapoport
An anthology of historical texts and literature for class activities, trips to Poland and Holocaust commemorative ceremonies, which aims to deepen the reader’s identification with the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust.